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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 ...
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.
Learn about the life and work of Badal Sircar, a celebrated Bengali dramatist and pioneer of the "Third Theatre" movement. Explore his play Micchil, a protest against state-sponsored violence and oppression in the context of Naxalite movement.
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.’.
- Suvankar Ghosh Roy Chowdhury
Sep 30, 2015 · 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...
- Anjum Katyal
- SAGE Publications, 2015
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- Badal Sircar: Towards a Theatre of Conscience
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.
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Aug 14, 2015 · Their style of theatre can be traced back to Badal Sircar—the late Bengali playwright and theatre director who pioneered the Third Theatre movement in India, and whom the members of Pathasena...
