Event Info
- Language: Bengali
- City / State: West Bengal
- Directed By: Saurav Palodhi
- Produced By: Thakurpukur Ichheymoto
Ghoom Nei
Powerful stories of the struggles of workers from the lowest strata of society
Ghoom Nei revolves around workers from the lowest segment of society with abysmal standards of living, struggling under dictatorship. The play consists of several parallel stories of people facing existential crises - that of survival and safety. The plot travels through a dark broken highway, attempting to reach the bridge of light, illuminated by hope and camaraderie.
Parallel stories of the struggles of workers from the lowest strata of society
Ghoom Nei revolves around workers from the lowest segment of society with abysmal standards of living, struggling under dictatorship. That these are the people most impacted by gains and losses in a society is the central focus of the play. The play contains several parallel stories - the story of truck drivers and their existential crisis; the story of a dhaba and its owner; the story of an unemployed individual and his struggle to enter the mainstream; the story of an insane person and his sense of loneliness; the story of a senior individual to whom these other stories have no meaning; the story of two reporters and their constant search for a new story. A manifesto of the lowest working segment of society, the plot travels through a dark broken highway, attempting to reach the bridge of light, illuminated by hope and camaraderie.
Cast
Santanu Mondal
Ekkori
Subhashis Khamaru
Uddhab
Anurag Roy Chowdhury
Satyen
Muddassar Hossain
Police
Apratim Sarkar
Indra
Suvajit Das
Reporter 1 (Prabir)
Abyay Sadhu
Reporter 2 (Nirmal)
Subhayan Ghosh
Radha
Kushal Chattapadhyay
Keshto
Arindam Sardar
Nakul
Krishnendu Saha
Hazra
Koushik Kar
Akhlaq
Raju Nandy
Sona
Raktim Sarkar
Chitrakut
Sumanta Das
Malik
Sajal Chakraborty
Jogu
Crew
Rajashree Ghosh and Subhendu Biswas
Backstage Managers
Manasi Sahoo
Subtitle Operator
Pramod Singh
Set Installation
Soumen Chakraborty
Light Direction and Operation
Sabyasachi Mukherjee
Light Assistant
Debdeep Mukherjee
Music Director
Shubhodip Roy
Sound Organizer
Kalyan Sarkar
Sound Projection
Turna Das and Apratim Sarkar
Costume Design
Thakurpukur Ichheymoto (Ensemble)
Set Design
Sulagna Nath and Santanu Mondal
Assistant Director
This plot from the 70s seemed very relevant today. It is a play of the uncivilized. A bourgeois boss is greeted with a “Good Morning” whereas truck drivers do not even think twice before berating their boss in filthy language to get their justified wages. Ghoom Nei teaches us to think anew and to raise the red flag of the proletariat. The audience will return with a strongly tied fist at the end.