Theatre activist M Hamid received ‘Munier Choudhury Honourary Award’ and Bangladesh Group Theatre Federation General Secretary Akhtaruzzaman received ‘Muhammad Zakaria Memorial Award’ on the opening day of a week-long festival titled ‘Theatre Week 2015’, which has been organised by the country’s one of the popular theatre troupes ‘Theatre’.
Professor Emeritus Anisuzzaman inaugurated the theatre week on Friday evening, while theatre personality Ataur Rahman, BSA Director General Liaquat Ali Lucky were present, among others. With the slogan ‘Sobar Opor Jibon Sotyo’, Theatre Week of this year has been dedicated to four veteran theatre activists named Munier Choudhury, Kabir Chowdhury, Abdullah Al-Mamun and Muhammad Zakaria.
As a part of the festival, Theatre (Bailey Road) will stage its much acclaimed production ‘Kuhakjal’ today at the National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA), Segun Bagicha in the city.
Written by Masum Reza and instructed by Tropa Majumder, the play has depicted the eternal love between a young rural couple Ghuran Sardar and Chandura. Chandura’s father marries her off to a twice-married businessman in exchange for a huge amount of cultivable land. Seeing his beloved with a powerful businessman, the sorrowful Ghuran leaves his house to be far away from his sweetheart Chandura.
In his new place, Ghuran Sardar becomes the witness of the tragic death of his friend  Kamakkhi, a Hindu, who eloped with his Muslim employer’s daughter.
Dejected, Ghuran returns home and tries to marry Chandura, who is by now deserted by her husband. But the venture fails as Chandura refuses him.
After getting turned down, Ghuran goes away again, and all of a sudden encounters an indigenous educated woman named Somani at a dance class where she is seen teaching dance lessons to a number of indigenous youths.
Ghuran sees these indigenous people are in a conflict with a businessman and a Christian priest who want to grab their land forcefully. Becoming more dejected and shaken, Ghuran returns to his village and finds his childhood friend Aghor has died. Aghor was killed in the hands of Chandura’s husband while he tried to save the humiliated Chandura. Ghuran does not want to see any more, and he stabs his own eyes out.
The cast of the play includes veteran actors Ferdousi Majumder, Ramendu Majumder, Tofa Hossain, Rashed Shaon and Tanvir Hossain, among others.

Where: BSA, Segun Bagicha
When: 7pm, today.  l