What Happens When William-Tagore Meet: Just Read What Biplab Das Gupta & Anashua Majumdar Did
By D N Singh
What a fusion of two legends of different times and of different continents when meet. Literature gets a notch higher notation leading us into those classic creations of different times but never had a semblance of drop in the gravities of thoughts.
Literature makes one think picking elements of tales from the societal strata and unfold the, sometimes, most obvious delicacies of life normally people fail to notice.
They carry us on the wings of imaginations to far away horizons of the truth and sometimes carry us on the wings of melody through their lyrical brilliance that lasts for ever.
That is exactly what Rabindranath Tagore and William Shakespeare had gifted to the unfathomable repertoire of literature. A tremendous poeticisation and story telling both the legends had mastered.
Two of the eminent actors of Bengali cinema, Biplab Das Gupta and Anashua Majumdar presented on stage the intrinsic timeless poetic qualities of the two legendary personalities of literature – Rabindranath Tagore and William Shakespeare at the Gyan Manch auditorium here.
Down the ages, people have been reading classic creations of classic authors- be it plays, poems, short stories, or novels. But whenever we think of Bengali Literature, the first name that comes to our mind is Rabindranath and in the case of English Literature, it is Shakespeare. They are timeless as their thoughts and the essence of their creations transcend times.
The duo successfully brought the two iconic literary legends on stage because they thought alike despite being born in two different centuries on two different continents. Both mastered the art of understanding human minds, human emotions, human relationships and the human psyche.
Actor Biplab Das Gupta regarding ‘William Tagore Meet’ said, “Our performance included an unique amalgamation of anecdotes, readings, recitation and enactments with a total of six plays, which are ‘The Merchant of Venice’, ‘Bisharjan’, ‘Othello’, ‘Musolmanir Galpo’, ‘Bawdnam’ and ‘Macbeth’.
Anashua Majumdar added, “Both great personalities dealt with love, jealousy, revenge, betrayal and similar emotions which are inherent in human nature. Both condemned those human emotions which led to decadence, and adored them when those emotions upheld human values.”
With Inputs from agencies
