AAKHRI VASANT – The Play

THE DIRECTOR…..

Subhadip Raha started his theatre in 80’s in Siliguri West Bengal. He is the fourth generation theatre practitioner in his family. He started his professional training from HCRFTA Mandi Himachal Pradesh and then successfully completed his three years Theatre training course from National School of Drama in 2007. Subhadip started his professional carrier as Teacher and Director, worked at Anupam Kher,s “Actor Prepares” in Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Chandigardh and, Center for Research in film and Television Delhi, Visiting Faculty at Bhartendyu Natya Academy Lucknow. Now he also worked as creative Director at Indira school of Communication and its Acting Academy. Subhadip has directed almost 40 plays and acted in hundreds of Plays. Apart from being actor, director, theatre guru, Subhadip Raha is a playwright also and has written five plays. The play Aakhiri Vasant is also written by him especially for DARPAN. Currently he is a lecturer at Bhartendu Natya Academy Lucknow.

THE GROUP…..

Darpan is one of the oldest and most prolific amateur theatre group of the Northern India established by Professor Satyamurti ji in 1961. Its Lucknow Chapter was established in 1971.

Darpan, Lucknow is one of the most active and determined organisations of Indian theatre. Darpan has often registered its proud presence in all the major theatre centres, theatre festivals and theatre events of the country and has made its creative contribution to the advancement of non-commercial Hindi theatre. Darpan got the opportunity to showcase its some of the much-acclaimed plays in Bharangam organised by NSD. Darpan also had the honour of representing India’s first Theatre Olympics (eighth in the world) with its famous play “Aurat Ki Jung.”

Darpan has given more than nineteen hundred theatrical performances across the country of around 300 plays of diverse linguistic provenance. Darpan is most active and doing regular theatre and giving priority to the upliftment of theatre by cooperating with other theatre organizations instead of competing with them. A number of the artistes associated with Darpan have made their mark at the national level in all fields, be it theatre, cinema, serials, web series or technical aspects etc.

Darpan is indebted to a number of India’s distinguished personalities like Abraham Alkazi, B.V. Karanth, Balraj Pandit, Amrit Lal Nagar, Lachchhu Maharaj, Bansi Kaul, Anupam Kher who supported and guided us; to eminent directors who immensely enhanced the quality of our productions; to eminent writers like Mudra Rakshas, Giriraj Kishore, Urmil Kumar Thapliyal, Iqbal Majeed, Vivek Chatterjee and Subhadip Raha who specifically wrote the plays for Darpan. The Proposed play Swaha is also exclusively written for Darpan by Subhadip Raha, an alumnus of NSD.