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| A scene from the play Jina-Etiben |
Taste of folklore in Nagamese play
Kshetri Jugindro’s Nagamese play, Jina-Etiben, was staged at Sriram Centre for Performing Arts Auditorium in New Delhi on September 13. The play was performed in the North East Children Theatre Festival organised by the National School of Drama from September 9 to 15.
Four plays from the Northeast — Chutti (Arunachal Pradesh) directed by Akhilesh Khanna, Bhagawadajjukiam (Meghalaya) by Vijay Srivastava, Hurray (Tripura) by Adreeja Dasgupta and Jina-Etiben — were presented at the festival.
Jugindro said a 30-day theatre workshop was conducted in Dimapur from August 3 under the National School of Drama in collaboration with the North Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre. Thirty children, including 10 girls from Nagaland, took part in the workshop.
The play, Jina-Etiben, is based on a romantic folktale of the Ao Naga.
Jugindro, an alumnus of the National School of Drama, said the play was an attempt to add a new dimension to their stagecraft, using indigenous forms of performing arts of Nagaland.
Satikar Andhakar (Darkness of Century), a short digital film of 18 minutes, produced and directed by Sadananda Gogoi, has bagged the best international directorial debut award at the recently concluded New York International Independent and Video Festival held at Village East Cinema in New York.
Besides writing the story and script, Gogoi, who is also a singer and composer, has scored the music for the film.
“It was a huge honour for me and my cast and crew to win the prestigious award at an international event. The film deals with an unconventional subject and we have been honest with the subject till the end,” said Gogoi after returning from New York to Jorhat, his hometown.
The film deals with superstition.
Altogether 287 films from 20 countries of the world, including the US, the UK, France, Spain and Italy were screened at the festival.
The film’s cast comprised Parthasarathi Mahanta, Nandita, Khagen Das, Barnali Dutta and Ramen Goswami.
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He is Assamese literature’s Anton Chekov, a favourite among the bibliophiles. But the fans of the “king” of short story writing genre, Assamese author Sheelabhadra (Rebati Mohan Dutta Choudhury), could not wish him on his 85th birthday on September 18 as he is in hospital, undergoing treatment in Guwahati.
Guwahati-based publishing house Banalata unveiled Sheelabhadrar Galpa Samagra, the complete collection of the writer’s short stories on his birthday, as a gift for both the author and his fans. The two-volume collection contains 409 short stories.
