 Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 1: Nutan International Theatre Festival, NITF-2020 today opened with a powerful discourse towards life and its unseen, unfelt complexities that raise many unanswered questions.
The play Evam Indrajit by Badal Sircar and directed by renowned director Satyabrata Rout is a philosophical attempt to have a deeper insight in the values of all aspects of life which are twisted and entwined in an endless expression of hope and despair .
The central character of the play ‘writer’ who is in face-off with tedious complications of writing a script based on the verity of situations finds a character emerging as Indarjit to whose rationality to many approaches , he does to wants to accede . This leads to compelling circumstances and hence the writer tends to wither away.
Mansi, a representation, too emerges in the process, but gets explored as collective consciousness only. The writer, whose persona has arisen as Indrajit finds his personality splitting into three dimensions of Amal, Vimal and Kamal also, but in the process, the writer loses the vision.
The play ends without end with open threads left to be twined and twisted into a rope for societal consumption.
Satyabrata Rout’s deft handling of a powerful script through his directorial taste was a treat to watch. Mounted on spaces and sets, the play graduated as controlling presentation which included power-packed performances by the actors on the stage.
Those who produced telling effect of realistic drama included Bishan Balabhadra Satapathy as Amal, Harish Kumar as Bimal, Kanhaiya Lal Kaithwas as Kamal, Sandeep Sahu as Indrajit, Satyabhama as Mansi, Manurika as Mausi while Satyabrata Rout himself played the central character of the writer.
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