Bahurupi ,one of most important group theatres was formed on 1st May 1948. The group tomorrow will celebrate its sixty ninth anniversary. The same was formed under the leadership of two reputed theater personalities namely Maharshi Manoranjan Bhattacharya and Sambhu Mitra.
The formation of Bahurupi was a major significant incident in the History of Bengali theater. During the initial days the group had to work with so many constraints. Firstly just few months back our country was divided and a new country was formed namely Pakistan.Our Bengal was also divided and the eastern part was included in Pakistan and the same was known as East Pakistan.
Following this partition the socio economic condition of our Bengal part was almost collapsed. A large number of families came to our Bengal as refugees. As a result extreme food Crisis and their shelter problems arose. Truly the socio economic conditions almost collapsed.
It may therefore be appreciated that they had to face an extremely adverse situation and at the same time it is needless to mention that the extent of struggle they had to do.They faced all the odds only for staging good theatre .
Besides at that time the number of halls in kolkata were negligible in number and it was Extremely difficult to get a hall.Yet the journey was started seventy years ago and the same has been continuing .
During the long journey a good number of Actors and Actresses joined Bahurupi and left also. However Actors like Kumar Roy , Gangapada Basu , Amar Ganguly , Kali Prosad Ghosh , Debotosh Ghosh , Tripti Mitra etc. They produced Raktakarabi in 1954 directed by Sambhu Mitra was a milestone in Indian theatre. Besides they produced Raja , Bisharjan , Dakghar , Char Adhyay , Ghare baire , Raja owadipaus etc.
During their long journey they staged endless number of theatres .Credit must be given for their successful long journey .
The most tragic part of the group happened in 1978 when Sambhu Mitra was forced to leave the group though the details behind the story was subsequently written by a member of the group .The person who was the founder of the group was the victim due to conspiracy.
However , Sambhu Mitra after leaving the group occasionally took part in theatre from other platforms . He was awarded the very prestigious magdayday award and also he was awarded PadmaBibhushan by the Govt.of India and he is considered to be the no.1 theatre personality by the majority of theatre loving people after Shishir Kumar.
However despite all misdeeds the group is still alive.
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