![]() Bengali plays have a direct connection with Jatras as in the initial days Bengali plays were influenced by the folk plays acted on the open stage. Religion, myths, tradition and customs then were the core theme of the Bengali plays. Bengali plays witnessed a massive change during and after the independence of India. The Bahurupi culture in West Bengal also helped in promoting this performing art in a major way. ![]() The start of modern Indian theatre can be sketched to constructing of Calcutta Theatre in 1779. In the year 1795, Horasim Lebedev, a Russian dramatist, along with Goloknath Das, a Bengali theatre lover, staged the Bangle translation of two English comedies "Disguise" and "Love is the best doctor" in Kolkata. In 1831, Prasanna Kumar Thankur, set up "Hindu Rangamanch" at Kolkata and also staged Wilson's English translation of Bhavabhuti's Sanskrit Theatre "Uttar Ramachiritan" laying the groundwork for modern theatre in India. Other essential efforts on Bengali theatre scene include Jorasanko Natyashala (1854), private theatre stage by Ramsay Basak and Ashutosh Deb (1857), Vidyotshini Mancha (1857), Metropolitan Theatre (1859), Shobhabazar Private Theatrical Society (1865), Bagbazar Amateur Theatre (1868) and Bahubazar Natyashala (1866). ![]() Eminent personalities of Bengali theatre supported in crafting it as the refined technique of illustrating the unedited realities of life in Natya Dharmi in Bengal! Bengali theatre continued its journey through "Kirtivilas" of Yogendra Chandra Gupta, Neel Darpan' of Dinabandhu Mitra and gained a colossal maturity in the hands Bengali theatre personalities. The theatre personalities like Shombhu Mitra and Utpal Dutt can be credited in making Bengali Theatre a representation of the unaltered realities of daily life and social issues. Dwijendra Lal Roy, in his play "Mebar Patan" reinvented the style of historical plays in Bengali theatre. It was much later the socio political issues like the partition of Bengal 1905, Bengal famine of 1943 and the regional socio political scenario were also introduced into Bengali theatre. The structure of the stages in Bengali theatre then gained a contemporary diction. The famous stages in Bengali theatre still bear this rich history of Indian Natya so very expressively. The most famous stages of Bengali theatres are Star Theatre, Rabindra Sadan, Girish Maanch, Academy Of Fine Arts etc. Bengali theatre with its copious tradition started as a protest against the British imperialisms. It was with the introduction of modern Bengali theatre and later with the contemporary Bengali Theatre, the socio political and financial issues were clearly illustrated amidst the roopaka and natya of the Bengali theatre. More Articles in Personalities In Indian Theatre: |
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