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Saheb Baganer Sundari

Project Type

Puppet Theatre

Year

2013

Shahebbaganer Dukhini or “The Sad One of the English Gardens” is adapted from Manoj Mitra’s allegorical Saheb Baganer Shundari, a one act play. A crow converses with the white marble statue of an English lady in the garden of an abandoned mansion, once owned by an Englishman who left India after Independence. The statue asks for a piece of soap to clean her dirt stained body and promises the crow the precious stone on her chest. Once cleansed and glittering, she attracts all day the attention of the passersby. When the crow comes back he finds a shattered statue and a destroyed garden.

Script: Monoj Mitra
Direction: Sudip Gupta

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