Three-day Bengali drama festival to be held from October 12

NAGPUR: The Bengali Education Society, Bengali Association and the Pashchim Nagpur Bangio Samiti of Nagpur are jointly organizing a three-day Bengali Drama Festival from October 12 to 14 at Dr Vasantrao Deshpande Hall, Nagpur.A drama featuring legendary actor Soumitra Chattopadhyay and two more presented by Rudraprasad Sengupta of Nandikar, Kolkata, will also be staged during the festival. Bengali Education Society secretary Pradip Ganguly informed that eminent playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar will inaugurate the festival on October 12 at 6.30 pm. The same day Soumitra Chattopadhyay will present the play 'Tritiya Onko - Otoeb'. The play is based on Chattopadhyay's autobiography in which he will play the lead role while his daughter Poulomi Basu will play an important role. On the second day, (October 13), Hridmajhare, an adaption from William Shakespeare's 'As you like it', will be staged. The drama, a production of famous Nandikar group of Kolkata, was a mega hit in West Bengal recently. Among the prominent actors in the play include Anirban Ghosh, Bindiya Ghosh and Anirban Roy Chowdhury. The drama fest will conclude with Bhishma Sahni's play 'Madhavi' on October 14.The play will be directed by well-known actress Swatilekha Sengupta while another legendary actor Rudraprasad Sengupta will be the main actor supported by Swatilekha Sengupta and Dev Shankar Haldar. This is first time that such Bengali drama festival is being organized featuring such eminent artistes in central India.