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Sudhindra Sircar (15 July 1925 - 13 May 2011), also known as Badal Sarkar, was an influential Indian dramatist and theatre director, most known for his anti-establishment plays during the Naxalite movement in the 1970s and taking theatre out of the proscenium and into public arena, when he transformed his own theatre company, Shatabdi ...
Aug 13, 2019 · Badal Sircar (1925-2011), playwright, director, received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1968, Padma Shri in 1972, and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship – Ratna Sadsya – in 1997. He declined the Padma Bhushan in 2010 saying he was already a Sahitya Akademi Fellow, the highest recognition for a writer.
A fine example of Sircar’s signature egalitarian ‘third theatre’, Micchil presents the chaos of death and oppression in the backdrop of Naxalite movement and the subsequent brutal rampage of the police by killing youth to suppress it.
Badal Sircar (1925-2011)—along with Girish Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar, and Mohan Rakesh—is considered one of the most prominent figures in modern Indian theatre. Among the alternative theatre forms, Sircar is a well-known name who advocated innovative theatrical practice known as the ‘Third Theatre.’.
May 25, 2021 · Badal Sircar’s Omniscient commitment to the Theatre of social change after independence especially during the 1960s. The decade witnessed formation of art in many parts of the world including India.
Badal Sircar (1925-2011) is one of the most important and influential figures in the history of post-independence Indian theatre. As a playwright, he contributed seminal texts...
May 15, 2011 · In between the frenzy over a political change in West Bengal, the death news of dramatist Badal Sircar, who re-wrote the history of contemporary Indian theatre, went largely overlooked.
Feb 26, 2010 · The dominance of Calcutta sprang largely from its historical location as the commercial heart of the East India Company, following the British victory at the Battle of Plassey and Robert Clive's acquisition of the management of Bengal revenues in 1765.
Badal Sircar established his own theater group - Satabdi. He produced plays relendessly without any support from the establishment. But to call him anti-establishment or nihilist was demeaning a genius, who was honest to himself and to the medium even at the cost of recognition and popularity. Speaking
this decisive discussion, Badal Sircar was included without exception. After writing a few pure comedies of middling local Bengali renown in the late 195os and early '6os, Sircar shot into the national limelight in 1965 with the publication of Ebong Indrajit (And Indrajit). Written in 1963, the play re-
