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Rabindra Natya Utsab in full swing

DWAIPAYAN BARUA, Chittagong
A weeklong drama festival titled ‘5th Rabindra Natya Utsab' began here last Sunday with a call to incorporate Rabindranath Tagore's creations in different mediums.
Tiryak Natyadal, a leading theatre group of the port city, has organised the festival with a view to highlight the depth of Tagore's talents in different branches of Bengali literature.
Theatre exponent Ramendu Majumdar inaugurated the festival with noted social scientist Professor Anupam Sen in the chair at theTheatre Institute Chittagong (TIC) auditorium.
During the inauguration, students of Odissi and Tagore Dance Movement danced (directed by Prama Abanti) with the Rabindra Sangeet Ananda Dhara BohichheyBhuboney.
Secretary General of Bangladesh Group Theatre Federation, Jhuna Chowdhury and local theatre activist Alok Ghosh delivered the welcome speeches.
Speakers at the ceremony urged the authorities concerned to assist;the.theatre activists, allowing them to use the local1 auditoriums for the practice and development of theatre.
A reception was accorded to three noted theatre personalities - Ramendu Majumdar, Founding Secretary of Nagarik Natya Sampraday; popular director Ataur Rahman and veteran theatre organiser of Chittagong, Mahbub Hasan — at the programme.
Mahbub Hasan, who has been involved in theatre and other cultural movements in Chittagong since 1940s and is now ailing from age-old complications, expressed his eagerness to work in the theatre again.
Mentioning his personal attachment with Chittagong, Ataur Rahman praised the initiative of local organisers and activists.
He said, “We have much to learn fromTagore’s plays."
Ramendu Majumdar was honoured for his active role in popularising the practise of theatre in Bangladesh and taking it to the international cultural arena.
Majumdar mentioned that the practice of theatre in Chittagong, which was more vibrant during the postLiberation War period, has gradually waned.
He hoped that the arrangement of such festivals would inspire the local theatre activists to practice more and enliven the cultural scene. Majumdar also urged the theatre activists to practice Tagore's plays with .conviction, maintaining their originality- 1 • । '
Dr Anupam Sen said that Tagore's plays like Mayar Khela, Raja Rani. Bishorjon, Raktokarobi and others are considered classics as the Nobel laureate used deep symbolic messages in his creations.
Later Tiryak staged the 156th show of their production Bishorjon, directed by Ahmed Iqbal Haider.