Director’s Note

‘Human is the highest truth, nothing above it’. Boru Chondidas—a Bengali poet, uttered this immortal saying in medieval age. ‘We’ are bearing his legacy. Those ‘we’ are getting cornered continuously; thousand years old history, tradition & struggle and those ‘we’, who don’t accept religious division. The seed of communalism that was sown in our culture by British conspiracy through Bengal partition is still at large. By injecting fear in other communities mind, a certain class of people is determined to divide the society and to create a dark-age atmosphere in our country. But ‘we’ will not allow such a society without free-thought. These ‘we’ are minority in number. Theatre and other marginal art forms we practice just reach handful people. We know, this struggle is tough—but it should not give up.

This play is not a history of partition. It is a story of a person of strong conviction from a particular period, society and place. ‘Tinkori’ is an invocation for making a united society & culture.

Nowadays it is quite challenging to work with large cast– from all aspects. My breath—‘Anuswar’, gave & received that courage. We didn’t left our premise; we didn’t abandon our aspiration for art creation, even in the evil days of pandemic. Porimol Mojumder (Aranyok Natyo Dol), Amlan Biswas (Nagorik Natyosomproday), Aniket Pal Babu (Palakar), Sajib Biswas (Biborton Jashore), Piklu Bakshi (Drishyopot), Parvin Paru (Prachyonat) and ‘Anuswars’—those who have enriched ‘Tinkori’—I bow down before them.

On Stage

S.R Sompod :: Tinkarri
Shakil Shiddhartha :: Paskarri
Mohammed Bari :: Halim Sarder
Proshanta Halder :: Dhulo Buro, Announcer
Ranjan Dey Sathi :: Sadhu, Villager, Magician
Mazedul Mithu :: Nobu
Akib Babu :: Ainuddin
Abir Sayem :: Budo
Arifur Rahman :: Imam, Villager
Hozaifa Ali Sohel :: Kashem, Villager
Ashikur Rahman :: Ajgor
Dahlia Ferdousi Baani :: Josna
Nurujjaman Sarker :: Johirullo
Mahfuz Sumon :: Villager, Canvasser, Somuddi, Boy
Farida Akter Lima :: Amina, Snake Charmer
Sadia Chowdhuri Suchi :: Asiron
Parvin Paru :: Anandi

Accompaniment

Sajib Biswas (Biborton Jessore)
Piklu Bakshi (Drishopot)
Sudipto Mahmud
Shakil Shiddhartha
Hridoy

Back Stage