Event Info
- Language: Bengali
- City / State: Kolkata, ( West Bengal)
- Directed By: Saurav Palodhi
- Produced By: Thakurpukur Ichheymoto
Je Janlagulor Akash Chilo
Je Janlagulor Akash Chilo
Je Janlagulor Akash Chilo embodies the romance of Calcutta’s bygone years, punctuated with love, bittersweet arguments, wrapped in a blanket of melancholy. Four friends from the nineties - Shoma, Tatin, Buban and Tubai - long for the childhood they have lost. The play meanders through the ebb and flow of life, and asks the question - will the four protagonists find each other again as they tackle life’s vicissitudes?
Je Janlagulor Akash Chilo embodies the romance of Calcutta’s bygone years, punctuated with love, bittersweet arguments, wrapped in a blanket of melancholy. Four friends from the nineties - Shoma, Tatin, Buban and Tubai - long for the childhood they have lost in their compulsion to grow up. Even though huge skyscrapers rob them of the view of the blue skies of innocence, they still seek a huge chunk of the sky from the highest floors of their building. The play depicts how none of us can ever reclaim our childhood locales, people and memories. It meanders through the ebb and flow of politics and the zeitgeist of the time, and asks the question - as the four protagonists tackle their way through life, will their paths cross again or will the haze caused by their politics, consciousness, and perception forever obscure the windows which once held the blue sky of their friendship?
Directed By Saurav Palodhi
Produced By Thakurpukur Ichheymoto
Cast -
Turna Das as Soma
Rahul Banarjee as Tubai
Krishnendu Saha as Tatin
Buddhadev Das as Buban
Bimal Chakraborty as Buban's maternal grandfather
Aditya Nandy as Buban's father
Swati Patra as Buban's mother
Sambeet Roy as Tubai's father
Pramod Singh as Shammi Kapoor
Manasi Sahoo as Soma's mother
Muskan Mondal as Tatin's mother
Abhijeet Nandy as Bhari (water vendor)
Pushpita Das as Kagojkurani (rag picker)
Wridhhyan Dasgupta as Young Tubai/ Buban/ Tatin.
Meghatri Mondal as Young Soma.
Rajarshi Bhattacharjee as Parar chele 1 (neighborhood boy)
Sourav Sutradhar as Parar chele 2 (neighborhood boy)
Deep Bhattacharjee as Parar chele 3 (neighborhood boy)
Ritwika Nath as Parar meye (neighborhood girl)
Santanu Mondal as Parar chele 4 (neighborhood boy)
Sulagna Nath as Parar meye 2 (neighborhood girl)
Crew -
Subtitle projectionist Debiprasad Dutta
Projector projectionist Gopal Chakraborty
Sound projectionist Samir
Light projectionist Soumen Chakraborty
Assistant light projectionist Somnath Chakraborty
Guardian of Meghatri Mondal Munmun Mondal
Guardian of Wridhhyan Dasgupta Debopriya Dasgupta
Costume Management Pushpita Das & Muskan Mondal
Prop Management Team Sourav Sutradhar, Rajarshi Bhattacharjee, Manasi Sahoo, Swati Patra
Stage Set Up Team Deep Bhattacharjee, Abhijeet Nandy, Aditya Nandy
Back Stage Management Santanu Mondal & Ritwika Nath
Associate Directors Sulagna Nath, Pramod Singh & Sambeet Roy
A harsh reality of life is that childhood remains in childhood. As we grow older, the memories of those innocent days blur and a different consciousness comes like a villain to stand between those who were once bosom buddies. Things like politics, and perception relentlessly create distance between friends. I have seen a lot of films about friendship, but never a large-scale play on this theme. For the longest time, I wanted to make such a play that deals with some beautiful moments, and processes relationship dynamics and situations. Living and cohabiting with this play for the last few months I realised that friendship is also about looking out for that friend with whom you played hide and seek as a child, May friendship survive; may it thrive.