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Volume : II, Issue : VI, July - 2012

Badal Sircar- A Street Playwright

Md. Javeed Iqbal

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

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Badal Sircar's (1925 to 2011) real name is Sudhindra Sircar. He was born in Calcutta in 1925.He was a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from Calcutta University. In 1992, he had his master's degree in comparative literature from Jadavpur University in Calcutta. Although a town planner, Badal Sircar entered theatre as an actor and then moved on to direction and scriptwriting. Among all the influences he imbibed, Richard Schechener's influence was perhaps the greatest and the most important. It was his performance group, an experimental troupe that inspired him to establish his “Third Theatre” later in his career. The first play that made a landmark in the history of the modern Indian drama, he wrote was Abong Indrajeet. Evam Indrajeet in English, Hindi and Marathi in 1963. The instantaneous success of the play on the stage in 1965, left Badal Sircar as an icon, a celebrity of the contemporary Bengali Theatre. The play projected “the loneliness of the post-independence urban youth” in Calcutta and by far, in India. The other plays that followed in the trend were Baki itihas (The Other History,1965) Pralap (Derilium,1966)”Thringsha Shatabdi “(Twentieth Century,1966) “Pagla Ghoda”(Mad Horse,1969) Shesh Naai (There Is No End, 1969). All these plays were performed in public by Sombhu Mitra's theatre group called 'Bahurupee'. The other remarkable plays by Badal Sircar that presented on the Bengali stage are Basi Khabar (Stale News).Michhil (Procession in English) and (Julus in Hindi/ Marathi), Bhoma, Badi Buaji, etc.

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Md. Javeed Iqbal, (2012). Badal Sircar- A Street Playwright. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. VI, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/1176.pdf

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  1. Badal Sircar, Azad Memorial Lectures, 1982. Quoted by Ella Dutta in the Introduction to Three Plays, V.
  2. Jacob Srampickal, Street theatre: protest all the way, in voice to the voiceless (C. Hurst & COL pubs. Ltd. , UK,1994),99-153.
  3. Contemporary Indian Drama ed by sudhakar Pandey and Freya Tarapurwala, New Delhi, Prestige Books 1990.
  4. K. Sumana, “The Importance of Indian Street Theatre with special Reference to the Plays of Badal Sircar,” The Commonwealth Review, Vol. V, No.1 (1993-94), 61-65.
  5. I.A. Richards, practical criticism.

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