ANTO AADI ANTO

ANTO-AADI-ANTO is inspired by a French play La Musica, penned by Marguerite Duras; RudraprasadSengupta adapts this play, body and soul, in an Indian context.

The theme of ANTO-AADI-ANTO is as old as Humanity : Man-Woman Relationship. True to Horace, a man invariably seeks a woman. During long march of Civilization, the Institution of Marriage has evolved. Marriage creates Family, Marriage protects Man-Woman Relationship; but again, this Bond of Marriage itself often degenerates into Bondage; Marriage, not infrequently, becomes a Tantalus’s cup, a tedious repetitive journey of a Sisyphus.

ANTO-AADI-ANTO has a simple storyline that begins during early night and ends in early dawn in the lobby of a plush hotel in Darjeeling. In the forenoon, the Court of Law has granted Anindita and Mrinmoy a formal divorce. In the late evening that very day, now legally separated, Mrinmoy and Anindita chance-meet in the lobby of the hotel where both of them have checked in.

No longer man and wife, they are now free individuals; but their past haunts them; they talk and talk as the grandfather clock strikes hour after hour.

Their departure, each to one’s destiny, is imminent, the moment of reckoning arrives– is it a moment of a new beginning or the beginning of an end!

Amaar Priyo Rabindranath
Here is a Dramatic-Musical Collage – derived from Poems, Rhymes, Prose Writings, Novels, Stories and, of course, Songs by Tagore in accompaniment with Violin, Keyboard and Percussions.

The Central Character of AmaarPriyo Rabindranathis WOMAN: women of great variety – from daily life as well as from fairy tales, from the villages and meadows, from castles and palaces – women who are sometimes playful, sometimes tormented, womendescended from the heavens upon this earth – our earth which is so restrictive, so confusing.