ACHIN GNAYAR GATHA
SRC, 4.30pm, Sat, 9 Jan
Bengali, 60 minutes
Director: H. Kanhailal
Playwright: Debasis Majumdar
The story revolves around the life of a young girl whose mother dies while giving birth. Although her father loves her deeply, her life is made miserable by the abusive and cruel behaviour of her step-mother. Once, when her father is away, her step-mother inflicts such violence on her that she is almost crippled. Just then she is rescued by a flock of birds and carried away to a distant land. When her father returns and finds his daughter missing, he takes his wife and goes to the temple of goddess Kali to pray for her return. While at the temple the step-mother, for the first time in her life, starts experiencing the emotions and feelings of a mother. Filled with remorse, she is transformed and begins a new life.
Associate Director – H. Sabitri
Production Associate – Jyoti Basu
Light Design – Joy Sen
Set Design – Prasun Banerjee
Set Execution – Bilu Dutta
Costume Design – H. Kahailal, Jayoti Basu
Illustrations – Hiran Mitra
Kumari – Sampa Das
Step Mother – Mamoni Dasgupta
Father – Gopal Chakraborty
Singer – Anandi Basu
Old Men –Dani Karmakar, Saikat Bhakat, Asesh Ranjan Biswas
Villagers/Birds – Ankita Majhi, Niladri Bhattacharya
Biswajit Das, Priyanath Mukherjee, Atanu Sarkar, Bebashis Chanda, Raju Khan, Rajat Kumar Das
Goddess Kali – Supriti Sinha Prajapati
