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Social mirror - real and surreal
July 11, 2019
Mirza Ghalib, Delhi's iconic reconnoiter, said once, "My whole life, I kept dusting my viewing mirror, without ever removing dust from my own body..." Two recent adaptations from the Western dramatic genre attempted to seek reflection of our own society, warts and all, in the playwrights' own mirror.
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Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906), the Norwegian playwright, theatre director and poet, is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare and, by the early 20th century, his A Doll's House - penned in 1879 -- became the world's most performed play. A scathing criticism of the marital roles accepted by men and women which characterized Ibsen's society -- and relevant even now after 140 years! -- the story is about a very ordinary family: a bank manager and his wife Nora, with their little children studying elsewhere. The husband supposes himself the ethical member of the family, while his wife assumes the role of a pretty irresponsible female in order to flatter him into this snug -- not to say stifling -- arrangement. There intrude several hard-minded outsiders, one of whom threatens to expose a fraud that Nora had once committed (without her husband's kn
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Film-maker Gautam Halder no more
Born on August 14, 1955, Halder is among the few in Kolkata's culturescape to have dabbled in feature films, documentaries, theatre and photography.Images of an energetic Halder accompanying Balan to a puja inauguration last week in Salt Lake are still fresh in people's minds. The director-actor association had strengthened since 2003 when 'Bhalo Theko' bagged three National Awards. The news of his demise came as a shock to Balan, who took a flight to Kolkata to pay her last respects.
In her social media post, CM Mamata Banerjee described him as a "distinguished film director and theatre personality" whose demise is "a great loss to the world of culture".
Sarod player Amaan Ali Bangash too expressed his sadness. “Apart from being a great film-maker, he was also a big connoisseur in promoting Indian classical music. My father, my brother and I have played so many show