''टैगोर एक महान कवि थे लेकिन नाटककार दोयम दर्जे के थे.'' गिरीश कर्नाड के इस कथन पर अपनी आपत्ति जाता रहें हैं रुद्रदीप.
A second grade mediocre playwright
according to you cannot write plays like Raktakarabi, Dakghar, Bisarjan, Achalayatan etc, it is not surprising then that tagore,s works are indicative
of both in digenous as well
as foreign influences, which was closely observed by him in his childhood.
understanding tagore,s plays therefore requires a basic understanding of the
milieu in which he was brought up.Tagore spent lot of time with great theatre
practitioners and performers in his own home from child hood,his own brothers
girindranath and jyotirindranath were both connoisseurs of european and indian
theatre, he was raised with rich theatrical background. tagore was deeply
impressed by sir Henry Irving and Sir Ellen terry of london theatre, he was
regular visitor in savoy theatre and many theatres during his stays at london.great
theatre director of public theatre sisir kumar bhaduri then in bengal was a
great admirer of tagores plays and his vision, for your kind reference Badal
sarkar himself also directed Raktakarabi. Research more.
Great modern Indian theatre director sambhu mitra is
remembered for his directorial creations on tagore plays. still now many young
powerful avant garde contemporary theatre directors experimenting with tagore,s
plays with lot of innovative ideas, if his plays are trash and ordinary so many
senior and young theatre directors now would not have shown interest to direct
his plays with experimentations in india and abroad.
It is a pity and tragedy that the there is a
financial bussiness fund game with tagore,s name running for many years from government
cultural organisations , private org etc etc with short cut ordinary theatre
productions in india which didnt showcased his plays with professional creative
standard, thats doesnt mean that hhis plays are ordinary and substandard.
characters like bishu pagol in raktakarabi and
thakurda of dakghar , etc etc has lot of potential subaltern identities which
are not embedded with aristocratic influence as mentioned by you, read
carefully with directors mind not academic mind.
i dont wrote this letter as abengali worshipper of
tagore, i myself deconstructed his texts in performance a lot, and i accept him
as a world dramatist not a bengali public myth tagore.
as a subjective understanding of yours i welcome your
take,it s yr right ,its not ever a public view at all right now in india,though
i myself dont agree at all to your comments.
MY SECOND OPEN MESSAGE TO SHRI
GIRISH KARNAD.
If tagore was a mediocre dramatist
,then in our indian theatre history Great Indian directors like sisir kumar
bhaduri,Sambhu mitra, kumar roy,Badal sarkar, Ratan thyam, Kanhailal , Mk raina
, chetan dattar, etc etc would not have explored or done experiments with
tagores plays and made succesful Powerful theatre productions in India. Even
many world
theatre directors
like Great German Avant garde theatre director Mehring would not have shown
interest to direct and explore his plays. now in Indian theatre and in
bangladesh and in our subcontinent also many young theatre directors are
exploring tagores plays with lot of innovative ideas, they are doing lot of
experiments in contemporary theatre with his plays, Earlier great theatre
directors of India like sambhu mitra is known for his path breaking direction
with tagore plays and widely accepted from indian theatre audience and
intellectuals, when we see raja theatre production of Ratan thyam and dakghar
of heisnam kanhailal at present indian theatre practice with tagore,s plays we
can find out in indian theatre a new language of dram turgy and theatre vision embedded
in tagore,s plays. so please do more research on his plays and theatre vision.
i always like your bold statements and your subjective comments, but i do not
agree personally to this statement of yours, even it is not a over all view of
Indian theatre fraternity. please rethink about your perceptions on tagore as a
dramatist and put up factual and solid references to analyze his weaknesses and
mediocrity. i will definitely look and think if you come up with solid
questions and criticisms on tagore plays. so lets discuss and debate other than
worshipping tagore as a myth or criticizing him as a mediocre trash playwright,
lets discuss more with proper critical appreciation. let us all analyze
scientifically.
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