BANKUBABUR BANDHU & SAMUDRER MOUNA at Rangashankara

Oct 11 Wednesday Swapnasandhani Presents BANKUBABUR BANDHU

Director: Koushik Sen
Language: Bengali
Time: 3.30 pm and 7:30 pm

BANKUBABUR BANDHU

Story: Satyajit Ray (Adapted by Ujjwal Chattopadhyay)
Duration: 45 mins

Cast: Subhasis Sengupta, Riddhi Sen, Bhaskar Chakraborty, Sumanta Roy, Susanta Banerjee, Rabindranath Jana, Samir Pailan, and Kamal Paul

Band: Animesh Bhaduri, Sreejit, Krishnau Nag, Amit Bhattacharya, Shubhankar Banerjee, Susmit Chatterjee, Sandip Chatterjee, Kanchan Mullick
Set Design: Sanchayan Ghosh
Lighting Design: Ashok Pramanik
Lights: Dipankar Dey, Brindaban Das, Rinku Paul
Costumes: Reshmi Sen
Make-up: Mohd Ali

Synopsis

Bankubabur Bandhu tells the tale of the timid, polite, non-interfering Bankubehari Dutta who befriends a creature from the planet Cranius, Mr.Ang. Dutta, a schoolteacher in a small suburban town is routinely ridiculed and made the butt of practical jokes by all his ҦriendsҬ actually toadies of Sripati-babu, an influential and rich man of the area. Banku-babu tolerates all this in the hope that one-day Sripati-babuӳ recommendation to the authorities will confirm his position in school, and his post-retirement formalities will be regularized. In an inspirational speech, Ang asks Banku-babu not to tolerate ridicule, and gives him a gadget that empowers him to control the movements of others. Ang leaves for Cranius, and Banku-Babu is a changed man, confident, sure of himself.

SAMUDRER MOUNA

Where loneliness is the absence of the enemy. The human condition: a contradiction in terms.

Story: Bishnu Dey (Adapted by Koushik Sen)
Duration: 55 mins
Cast: Kabir Suman, Kunal Padhy, Reshmi Sen, Koushik Sen, Amit Bhattacharya, Subhadeep Sarkar, Gaurab Roy, Sandip Chatterjee, Susmit Chatterjee, Krishanu Nag, Ujjwal Malakar, and Subhankar Banerjee

Set Design: Sanchayan Ghosh
Lighting Design: Ashok Pramanik
Lights: Dipankar Dey, Brindaban Das, Rinku Paul
Music: Goutam Ghosh
Sound: Jayanta Paul
Costumes: Reshmi Sen
Make-up: Mohd Ali

Synopsis

ғamudrer MounaҠis based on a story by the celebrated French writer Vercor. Bengali poet Bishnu Dey has translated the English version of the story Ҕhe Silence of the SeaҠto ғamudrer MounaҮ
Set in war-time France, the play is a sensitive story of an ageing French aristocrat and his niece, living all by themselves in their villa in a remote village, and a German officer who has taken possession of their house. A composer before he joined the ranks in the war, he has idealistic notions about a unified Europe, which are rudely shattered as he meets his compatriots in the SS and the Nazi Party headquarters, who give him a totally contrary picture as all three relearn the fact that two warring nations can never have friends among themselves.

About Swapnasandhani

Swapnasandhani was founded in 1992 and has carved a niche for itself on the theatre scene in Kolkata for consistent high quality work.

The troupe has toured the USA, the UK and Bangladesh with its plays and has performed a street play ҁmader MeyebelaҠas part of a UNESCO project.