Sanskriti

Bay Area

Sanskriti, a Bay Area Bengali Organization, had always fostered a drama group of its own from the very beginning, in addition to being a pioneer in promoting and encouraging local Bengali Drama. The current group has also been very successful and enthusiastic in keeping that legacy alive and well-nourished. Sanskriti’s past productions include:

• Nater Guru: Samaresh Basu, Direction: Soumen Ghosh, 1998
• Sarkar Jobab Dao: Bhanu Bandopadhyay, Direction: Soumen Ghosh, 1999
• Pakhi: Manoj Mitra, Direction: Soumen Ghosh, 2001
• Adal Badal: Biru Mukherjee, Direction: Pradosh K Sarkar, 2003
• Sameside: Soilesh Guhoneogy, Direction: Pradosh K Sarkar, 2004
• Swet Pathorer Tabil: Sanjib Chattopadhyay, Direction: Shyamal Roy,2005

Prantik

In this year's Natya Mela Sanskriti will present Prantik written and directed by Pradosh Sarkar.

Prantik, name of a privately-owned old-age home, is the story of those who had to make ‘Briddhashram’ their terminal stop of the life – either out of their own volition or under a quirk of circumstances. The pranks and ludicrous conversations of a young girl and boy, Chandrabolee and Suronjon, reveal the story gradually to shift the focus onto Subodh, and Neeroja, two sexagenerians, who end up being in Prantik. Chandrabolee gathers their story to be much different even though their present address is the same – Prantik.

The cast includes: Sangita Nandy, Amrita Sircar, Dipanwita Sengupta, Poushali DeBhowmik, Manjima Sarkar, Anindya Bhaduri, Abhijit Roy, Shibabrata Mondal, Soumen Chatterjee, Sourav Chakroborty, and Swagoto BasuMullick. Playback: Waziuddin Chaudhuri, Aditya Das, Arun Saha, and Sukanto Mukherjee. Makeup: Soumen Ghosh. Production: Arindam Bhattacharya, Sumit De Bhowmik. Set: Bidhan Chaudhuri.