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A week-long festival titled Mancha-Chitrer Suman has been curated to celebrate the life and works of Suman Mukhopadhyay, showcasing his plays and films across three venues. Don't miss this celebration of the renowned director's socio-politically driven plays and numerous films and books.
Director Suman Mukhopadhyay first staged
Mephisto in Kolkata to protest the 2002 Gujarat riots. The Bengali play re-emerged in 2012 as a critique of the violence displayed by the ruling Trinamool Congress party. It is based on Klaus Mann’s 1936 novel of the same name, Ariane Mnouchkine’s stage version of the book and Hungarian filmmaker Istvan Szabo’s movie adaptation.
Now, smack in the middle of the Bengal assembly elections,
Mephisto is back on the stage in Kolkata to “remind people of how authoritarian fascist rule can destroy the fabric of a country, and what the role of an artist can be in this situation”, Mukhopadhyay told