MANIKCHAND

PLAY	FIRST SHOW	NO. OF SHOW	STATUS
MANIKCHAND	25th May’2011 Minerva Theatre	11	Continued
KOBIAL TUNI	31st August’2012 Minerva Theatre	05	Continued

CREDIT

          Music         :         Subhendu Maity  

          Dance        :         Kabir Sen Barat

          Stage         :         Pradip Das

          Light           :         Somnath Chatterjee

          Makeup     :         Panchanan Manna

          Dress         :         Amar Ghosh

            Sound           :           Swapan Bandopadhyay , Asit Moitra

          Art              :         Subrata Sen

Production Controller:      Ajoy Banerjee , Subrata Bhowal                     

                  

Direction      :      Meghnad Bhattacharya   

SYNOPSIS -

This is a story of a miraculous human being. He was born with beautiful golden hair on his head. His father Haju Pramanik was a poor barber in village Kushita. Incidentally Haju came to know the mystery behind the golden hair – “Clotted blood from the child’s had transform into gold”. Haju repaid all his debt by selling that gold and thereby made the greatest blunder of his life. This news spread like fire and ultimately reached the “Jaigirdar” of the locality. The “Jaigirdar” kidnapped the child and nurtured him tenderly to acquire all the gold. The child was named Manikchand. One way Manikchand realized the truth and stubbornly refused to provide blood from his head. The “Jaigirdar” sentenced him to jail but could not confine him ultimately. Sultan Shihabuddin and Begum Ashmantara rescued  him and a new episode began. In her quest to  become the sovereign queen of the universe Begum Ashmantara  wanted to get involved in a number of battles  but Manikchand vehemently refused  to provide gold for warfare and said that he is only prepared to offer gold in the wellbeing of the deprived, distressed and helpless people of the universe .

And then ----?

CAST :

Narrator	ঃ-	Chandrika Das, Roddur Samaddar, Sridhanya Bhattacharya, Debashan China
Chorus	ঃ-	Rajdeep Bose ,Subham Roy ,Akash Das ,Dipayan China , Hritashray Ghosh , Diganta Kanjilal , Trambak Bhattacharya
Dancers	ঃ-	Debolina Paul Sristi Dutta ,Ariyetri Bhattacharya , Anwesha Mukherjee ,Mary Acharya ,Tandrima Dutta
Haju Barber	ঃ-	Sanlap Roy
Haju’s Wife	ঃ-	Tuhina Chakraborty
Land Lord	ঃ-	Moitrayani Das
Land Lord’s Wife	ঃ-	Subhamita Banerjee
Manikchand	ঃ-	Deepraj Bora
Manikchand’s friends	ঃ-	Gairika Chakraborty ,Mohini Mondal ,Arka Chakraborty , Sayantika Sengupta ,Soham Dawn , Shrabana Halder , Shramana Halder ,Raima  Bhowmick
Folk Singer	ঃ-	Anamika Bhattacharya
Plaoan Guard	ঃ-	Aryabin Hasan
Sultan Shiabuddin	ঃ-	Dibyasankar Das
Begum Ashmantara	ঃ-	Saradipa Chakraborty
General Kadar Khan	ঃ-	Suparno Banerjee
Maid Salma	ঃ-	Sudipta  Banerjee Debolina Paul

                         

========================================================

Credit :

          Light-                             Somenath Chatterjee

          Makeup-                         Panchanan Manna

          Puppet-                          Triguna Shankar Manna

          Rhythm-                         Diptesh Mukherjee

          Production Controller – Dhurjati Dey,  Parimal Chakraborty

          Assistance Director-      Shamit Bandopadhyay, Kathakali Deb

                                      Direction:   Anjan Deb

Synopsis of      “KOBIAL TUNI”

It all started  with  some informal improvisation form Upendrakishore Roychowdhury’s collection of “Tuntunir Galpo” . There was not  even a formal script but the budding  artists of Junior Sayak started creating  one after another scene from the story itself using their imagination and intelligence . Spontaneous dialogues and songs were magically amalgamated with dance and dramatic movements and within time span of 10 days it took the shape of a theatrical production   . It was astonishing ……… it was amazing.

                                                                                                          

The little children were massively excited. Design of dress, light set and puppetry to give out a colorful and gorgeous look and suddenly discovered that a cute and fairy bird “Kabial Tuni” twittering on my window.

ON STAGE

Director/Guard	ঃ-	Akash Das
Court Singer	ঃ-	Trambak Bhattacharya
Tuni/Queen	ঃ-	Shrabana Halder, Raima Bhowmik,  Soumeli Mukherjee, Rupkatha Hembram, Maitri Sen, Lovely Halder,Rohini Dawn, Shramana Halder,
Generel	ঃ-	Shoham Dawn
Soldier	ঃ-	Shubham Roy, Saswata Ghosh , Tirthobrata Das,  Rwitam Ghosh , Sayak Karmakar,
Court Official	ঃ-	Soujatya Sengupta
King	ঃ-	Avik Mirdha
Bench Clerk	ঃ-	Shankhanil Pal
Horitoki	ঃ-	Tapobrata Das
Court Member	ঃ-	Shubhranil Majumdar
Prime Minister	ঃ-	Sabitra Banerjee
Announcer	ঃ-	Adri Roychowdhury
Mr. Totos	ঃ-	Arusmit Bhattacharya
Public	ঃ-	Bikram Dhar