Badal Sircar Play Analysis

CHAPTER 1

Badal Sircar (15 July 1925 – 13 May 2011) was a significant Indian dramatist and theatre director. He was mostly recognized for his anti-establishment plays in the 1970s and taking theatre out into public arena, when he founded his own theatre company, Shatabdi in 1976. He scripted more than fifty plays of which Ebong Indrajit(Evam Indrajit), Basi Khabar, and Saari Raat are renowned literary pieces, an original figure in street theatre as well as in experimental and contemporary Bengali theatre with his result of "Third Theatre", he frequently penned down scripts for his Aanganmanch (courtyard stage) performances, and has become one of the most translated Indian playwrights.
Badal Sircar and his contemporaries, Girish Karnad and

This play bestowed the people with a shock of acknowledgement. The play was a reflection of the reality of every Indian; it was a powerful illustration, something way beyond imagination which portrayed ambiguous feelings, prevalent attitudes and unclear frustrations pointing at the hearts of the educated urban class. Although the play is published in the 60’s but its effect and implications are widespread to this day. For a long time, people, especially the youth, have wanted to live a life that is different from the daily wearisome routine to something new but there is always some kind of obstruction that thwarts them from doing so. Can grades, marks, calculations, judge the parameters of efficiency of any given person? Perhaps it may, perhaps it may not. The character of Writer in the play, Evam Indrajit, wishes to write a play but is not able to find a suitable, distinctive and relevant plot, for which he calls 4 people on stage from the audience; Amal, Vimal, Kamal and Indrajit. While the former three characters represent the common monotonous lifestyles of every Indian, the writer felt more interested in knowing more about Indrajit. Nonetheless, he felt disheartened and

In the 60s people had been living a monotonous and wearisome routine that had left people with no dreams or desires to live up to. The invisible force that kept the youth from flourishing into different fields of life and being the greatest at their work, was the society and its norms, as I have mentioned in the 2nd chapter. In some ways, our elders in our family have forced us to be what they want their children and grandchildren to be, but we cannot put all the blame on the elders as this is a case of saving one’s pride. And the youngsters have had their pride and have always wanted to save their pride by trying to be good in the same area of life as everyone else and thus making them ignore the areas that they were meant to work in. The social norms have put so many boundaries on life that it is difficult to not only have emotional strength to carry on but even in the real world, opportunities to flourish have become so less that there is mental stress on the people trying to accomplish their goals and