The famous play by G.P. Deshpande, which the professor-playwright-director, Ashok Mukhopadhyay translated as ‘Andhajuger Manush’, underwent extensive editing, refinement, and adaptation when we embarked on our journey from Prachyo. Revered Ashok Mukhopadhyay named this revised script ‘Buddhijibhir Moynatodonto’. In the context of 2021, we aimed to view this play anew, a play that ultimately speaks of humanism, seeks to understand the voice of the common man, the farmer, and the worker.

Shashwata Banerjee is the protagonist of this play, who wants to speak for everyone but ultimately finds himself in solitude. Through this play, we search for that solitary individual, whom we can describe as unique and unparalleled. Exiled from family, society, love, and almost every phase of life, even from the university with which he is associated, he ends up alone. Thus, this play also speaks of an isolated individual, a lonely person. In a broader sense, he can be termed subaltern, i.e., marginalized. We can describe him as someone distinct, unique, and different from everyone else. Through this play, we explored his journey. What is the life of that unique individual like? What are his thoughts? This play attempts to find that out and simultaneously tries to stand beside the common man. It narrates how society and the state isolate someone who stands by the common man.