Badal Sircar

Filmmaker Shiboprosad Mukherjee is returning to the theatre stage after two and a half decades. He will perform in Badal Sircar's play Bhul Rasta. This marks the birth centenary of the legendary playwright. Mukherjee reunites with his university friend Sujan Mukhopadhyay for this special production. Theatre lovers anticipate this collaboration

To pay tributes to the legendary playwright and director Padmshri Badal Sircar, Samantar is organising a three day programme christened Badal Srijan Mahotsava starting from July 15 which would continue till July 17.

Anirban Bhattacharya’s directorial feature film ‘Ballabhpurer Roopkotha’ is already creating quite a lot of buzz ahead of its Kali Puja release. To up the excitement bar among fans, the director has just dropped the music video of a new song based on iconic writer Badal Sircar. The lyrics of this special song are an amalgamation of feelings and emotions which are initially being processed and finally evolved into a declaration of something mellow.

Several students and theatre activists at a programme here on Saturday evening rembered thespian Badal Sircar who passed away last week at his residence in Kolkata.

He had shunned conventional theatre and proscenium plays quite early in his illustrious career.

Noted dramatist Badal Sircar passed away at his home on Friday. He was 86. Sircar became popular for his plays 'Ebong Indrajit', 'Basi Khabar' and 'Saari Raat', widely acclaimed in the Seventies.

Sekhar Das is directing a cinematic adaptation of Badal Sircar's renowned play, 'Pagla Ghora,' as a tribute to the playwright's birth centenary. This film, starring Gargee Roychowdhury and an ensemble cast, aims to reinterpret Sircar's critique of societal hypocrisy for a modern audience.

The pandemic brought back a film 32 years after it was made and had left the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) wondering how to classify it. 'Pakhira', a 1990 film on thespian Badal Sircar, which was made by Sivananda Mukherjee, Asim Chaudhuri and Debashis Chakraborty, was revived after the first wave of the Covid pandemic.

A complaint has been lodged at Burtolla police station, alleging foul play over the death of dramatist Badal Sircar.

Amdavadis are in for a happening weekend as Badal Sircar's play - Saari Raat - is going to be staged in Ahmedabad this weekend

Bratya Basu will not be directing this year’s production of Kalindi Bratyajon. His protégé, Prithiwis Rana, has taken up the charge instead

One of the most eagerly-awaited events of the city's cultural calendar, the Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival (AKLF) 2016, which is being held in association with The Times of India, got underway at a glittering ceremony at Nandan on Thursday.

After earning critical appreciation with directorial debut ‘Mandaar’, Anirban Bhattacharya returns to the director’s chair in his filmmaking debut with the much-awaited ‘Ballavpurer Rupkotha’, based on Badal Sircar’s eponymous play. The teaser of the film is already out and it’s loaded with crisp dialogues and smart jump cuts.

This weekend of play readings lined up by Ranga Shankara for theatre lovers would be quite a treat Bengalureans. Read on...

The play was first staged in June.

Since making his debut with ‘Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa’ (1988) seasoned actor Joy Sengupta has been juggling between the world of cinema, plays and television with elan.

The Our Theatre workshop will be offered in Kannada, Malayalam, English and Hindi

India's premier Bengali literary festival, the 11th Apeejay Bangla Sahitya Utsob, has commenced, celebrating literary giants and fostering cultural dialogue. The event features tributes to Ritwik Ghatak, Badal Sircar, and Salil Chowdhury, alongside discussions on politics, poetry, women in literature, and publishing, promising a vibrant exploration of Bengali arts and thought.

In a world where artistic expressions feel so threatened, a ruling of the Bombay high court way back in the 60s in favour of the performance of Marathi play Vasnakand' should be invoked again and again, said film and theatre personality Amol Palekar on Wednesday.

The 7th International Theatre Festival of Kalindi Bratyajan showcased more than 10 local and international plays

What’s common between a supernatural comedy adapted from a Badal Sircar play, a heart-tugging story of innocence and experience, the tale of a Kashmiri shawl-seller and a Rohingya girl in search of her family, and an experimental deep dive into the largest dumping grounds in the country? All these films by debutant directors swept most of the categories of the Joy Filmfare Awards Bangla 2022 that was held in Kolkata on Friday night.