Kanishka Sen began designing lights for Sundaram, a group formed by his friends Partha Pratim Chowdhury and Manoj Mitra. His first successes were with Rabindranath Tagore's dance-dramas Taser Desh i.e. 'Land of Cards' and Shyama. Shyama was directed by the singer Suchitra Mitra for her school Rabitirtha in 1964 and took to the USA. Later his service was requisitioned by established groups of Kolkata and beyond, for example Habib Tanvir, Ratan Thiyam, the Konarak and Khajurahodance festivals, and the Festivals of India in Japan and Germany. Kanishka Sen assisted Tapas Sen in the lighting of Calcutta Repertory Theatre's Galileor jiban. He received stage lighting awards in 1982 for Nandikar's Football and in 1990 for Utpal Dutt's Laldurga i.e. 'Red Bastion'. Sen provided consultancy and expertise for auditoriums in Kolkata, Haora, and Santiniketan. He also taught lighting and stagecraft at the Department of Drama, Rabindra Bharati University. This article is a stub. You can enrich by adding more information to it. Send your Write Up to content@indianetzone.com |