Meet the Thespian -- Rudraprasad Sengupta
(2 - 3 September, 2007)
  • NANA RANGER DIN
    (adopted from Anton Chekov's Swan Song)
    Staged on 2nd September, 2007 at Institute
    of Physics. The recording can be downloaded
    from here(217mb). It was recorderd by Biswarup Satpati.
    (Thanks Rudrada for allowing us to put this up)
    		• Rudraprasad Sengupta is a fireband leader of Kolkata's leading theatre group Nandikar. Began in June, 1960 under Ajitesh Bandopadhyay, Rudraprasad became the leader of the group during late Seventies.

    Born in January, 1935, Rudraprasad has directed and acted in many theatres for Nandikar -- Antigone, Football, Khorir Gondi, Mananiya Bicharak Mandalee, to name a few. He received Sangeet Natak Academy award in 1980. He has also acted in Bernardo Bertolucci's film Little Buddha and Roland Joffe's film City of Joy.




    Logo of Nandikar designed by Satyajit Ray


    Thanks to Sankhadeep Chakraborty, Rupali Kundu, Biju Raja Sekhar and to you, Biswarup, for the recording.

    Sudipta Mukherji
    mukherji@iopb.res.in
    Last modified: August 12, 2008