Badal Sarkar

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name = Bardal Sarkar
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yearsactive = 1945 - present
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awards = 1966 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
1972 Padma Shri
1997 Ratna Sadsya

Badal Sarkar (or Badal Sircar) (1925 - ) is a famous Indian dramatist. He has written more than fifty plays of which "Ebong Indrajit" and "Basi Khabar" are well known literary pieces. He is actively involved with Bengali theatre.

He rose to prominence in the 1970's and was one of the leading figures in the revival of street theater in Bengal. He revolutionized Bengali theatre with his angst-ridden, anti-establishment plays during the Naxalite movement. [ [http://www.indiaprofile.com/people/badalsircar.htm Badal Sircar Profile at Indiaprofile] ] He has been awarded the Padma Shri in 1972, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1968 and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, Ratna Sadsya [ [http://www.sangeetnatak.com/programmes_recognition&honours_drama.html Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards] ] , in 1997.

List of plays

* Evam Indrajit
* Shesh Naai
* Basi Khabar
* Baaki Itihaash
* Pagla Ghoda
* Spartacus
* Prastava
* Juloos
* Bhoma
* Solution X
* Baropishima
* Saari raat
* Badi buaji
* Kavi kahini

His plays reflected the atrocities that prevailed in the society, the decayed hierarchical system and were socially enlightening.

References

See also

* Theatre in India

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