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The play ‘Dak Ghar’ was staged at Dhaka University on Saturday marking Rabindranath Tagore’s 81st death anniversary. The play of Tagore was directed by Rabeya Babu. The second batch students of Art House’s theatre wing performed in the production.
The three-day-long event was held at Dhaka University’s Nat Mandyal. The first show took place on August 5 and ended with the third and final show was staged on Saturday.
Tagore’s 1912 play ‘Dak Ghar’ revolves around Amal, a child confined to his adoptive uncle’s home by an incurable disease. Amal stands in Madhav’s courtyard and talks to passers-by, and asks in particular about the places they go. The construction of a new post office nearby prompts the imaginative Amal to fantasise about receiving a letter from the King or being his postman. The village headman mocks Amal, and pretends the illiterate child has received a letter from the king promising that his royal physician will come to attend him. The physician really does come, with a herald to announce the imminent arrival of the king; Amal, however, dies as Sudha comes to bring him flowers.
The drama starred Iffat Naushin Jayi as Amal, Hridoy Ghosh Rajeev as Madhav Dutta, Sultan Mahmud as Kabiraj, Md Ashikuzzaman as Watchman, Israt Jahan Bushra as Sudha, Md Manju Hossain as Dakharakra, Munira Mahjabin Mimo as Fatik, Raya Noshin Mahpara as Makhan. , Sumit Roy as Bagha, and Bahnishikha Tagore as Bau.
Ragib Naeem was the assistant director in this play under the direction of Rabeya Rabu, Naved Rahman, Ragib Naeem planned, designed and implemented the stage. The costumes were designed by Rabeya Rabu and Munira Mahjabin Mimo. Sound planning and music direction were done by Tanveer Nahid Khan and Rabeya Rabu.
Tagore, known by sobriquets: Gurudev, Kobiguru, Biswakobi, reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tagore died at the age of 80 on August 7 in 1941, according to the Gregorian calendar. But his death anniversary is observed in Bangladesh on Srabon 22 (‘Baishe Srabon’) of the Bangla calendar.
To mark the day, Bangla Academy, Shilpakala Academy, Shishu Academy, different government and non-government institutions and cultural organizations have organised events throughout the nation.
The youngest of thirteen surviving children, Tagore, nicknamed “Rabi”, was born on 25th of the Bangla month of Boishakh 1268 (May 7, 1861) in the Jorasanko mansion in Calcutta to Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi.
In his long seven decades of endeavors in different genres of Bangla literature, the great poet enriched the Bangla language and literature and elevated their positions in the global arena.
His novels, short stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to political and personal topics.
Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works and his verse - short stories, and novels - were acclaimed - or panned - for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation.
His poem collection ‘Gitanjali’ and made him the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in literature in 1913.
Sometimes referred to as “the Bard of Bengal”, Tagore’s poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial.
His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: Bangladesh’s ‘Amar Shonar Bangla’ and India’s ‘Jana Gana Mana.’ The Sri Lankan national anthem was also inspired by his work.
