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Azadi

Director's Note

Every free-spirited person dreams a lot. They dream to keep fighting, to touch the skyline. Tipu held those kind of dreams within his heart and the flows of ink. So I could not return such a grand arrangement of character and hipocracy of the time. In today’s India, the self-proclaimed fascist aggression does not have the strength and courage to fight like the hard-working personals. So I focused on the native weapons of the day in a little bit of light. Tipu’s fight has become a strip in the patriotic conspiracy. This has also shown me the story of pseudo patriots.

Synopsis of Azadi

Communalism is the eternal weapon in the hands of domestic and foreign exploiters against the unity of the working people. We condemn this evil motive of isolating the exploited people and maintaining the sovereignty of plunder. Inspired by the play written by playwright Girish Karnad, we have adapted ‘Azadi.’ We call on all people irrespective of caste and creed to unite and build a bridge of unity against communalism and dictatorship in the guise of democracy. In the background of the present time, we have picked up a new crop of wailing from the faded field of history. We have come together to revive the melody of the dark times. Before everything goes to the oppressor’s hand, let the sky, the air and the rough ground roar, let every lip sing – Azadi, Azadi, Azadi.

Premiered On: 25th Dec, 2020

Cast of Azadi

  • Tipu: Supriya Dutta
  • Purnaiya : Biplab Bandyopadhyay
  • Mir Sadik : Shatadal Chakraborty
  • Osman Ali Khan: Sovon Roychowdhury
  • Nadim Khan : Bipradip Roy
  • Kamruddin and Colonel Malet: Karna Chakraborty
  • Haripant : Subhasish Chakraborty
  • Nana Fadnavis : Asit Dey
  • Rokeya : Bhaswati Mukherjee
  • Sipahi: Supriya Dey
  • Mornington : Arghya Mukherjee
  • Welseley: Amit Chatterjee
  • Colonel Kirk: Ronit Dey
  • Saheb and 1st Narrator: Rishikalpo Banerjee
  • Boy : Swastik Ganguly
  • Girl : Srijeeta Dutta
  • Flute : Swastik Ganguly
  • Harmonium : Srijeeta Dutta
  • Chorus : Rupsa Dey, Bipradip Roy, Supriya Dey, Sutapa Kundu, Mrinal Baur, Karna Chakraborty, Ronit Dey, Srijeeta Dutta, Jhumur Saha, Subrata Bhattacharya, Santanu Chatterjee, Rishikalpo Banerjee, Sovon Roychowdhury, Shatadal Chakraborty

Creative Co-ordinators of Azadi

  • Set : Asit Dey and Ranjit Deb
  • Light Design : Debashish Chakraborty
  • Music : Pradip Majumdar and Budhhadev Das
  • Music lay-out: Buddhadev Das

Production Co-ordinators of Azadi

  • Production Controller: Santanu Chattopadhyay
  • Publicity and Production Assistant: Babin Das
  • Backstage: Swastik Ganguly, Srijeeta Dutta, Bipradip Roy, Supriya Dey, Rishikalpo Banerjee, Karna Chakraborty, Mrinal Baur, Ronit Dey, Shatadal Chakraborty, Subrata Bhattacharya, Santanu Chattopadhyay
  • Requisition: Sutapa Kundu and Jhumur Saha

Technical Co-ordinators of Azadi

  • Music operation: Santanu Chattopadhyay and Mrinal Baur
  • Light Projection: Debashish Chakraborty

Creators

  • Playwright: Girish Karnad
  • Translator: Ratan Kumar Das
  • Creative Advisor: Buddhadeb Das
  • Chief Advisor: Biplab Bandyopadhyay

Acknowledgement

  • Special Thanks – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Faiz Ahmed Faiz,Rahat Indori,  Arman, Amir Khusrow,Shani Arshad, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Amjad Sorbi, Sneha Khanwalkar,Rashid Khan,Vidya Shah, Suvendu Maity,Tapas Chakraborty, Kanhaiyalal Kumar,Pujan Sahil,Niranjan Sadan and Calcutta Youth Choir

Azadi reviews

Ei Samay, 16th Feb 2021
Desh, 12th Mar 2021