Pittsburgh_Patrika_July_2017_Issue
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
The <strong>Pittsburgh</strong> <strong>Patrika</strong>, Vol, 22, No. 4, <strong>July</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
sessing the invaluable necklace, they plan to execute him.<br />
In her desperate attempt to save Bojrosen, Shyamaa lets her admirer, the<br />
young Uttiyo (played by Roosa<br />
Mandal), take the blame for the<br />
theft. Uttiyo is put to death.<br />
Shyamaa and Bojrasen leave<br />
the country, with the merchant<br />
oblivious to how he was saved<br />
from imminent death. Love<br />
blooms between the two, but<br />
Bojrosen is inquisitive about<br />
how Shyamaa managed to save<br />
him from the clutches of execution.<br />
When he keeps on asking<br />
her how she secured his release,<br />
Shyamaa finally tells Bojrosen<br />
what she did because of her love<br />
for him, and the sacrifice of Uttiyo.<br />
Bojrosen is filled with guilt<br />
for Uttiyo’s death, and is disillusioned.<br />
He rejects Shyamaa’s love.<br />
Having lost Bojrosen’s love, Shyamaa too is disenchanted with life,<br />
having been the cause of Uttiyo’s death, Rejected by Bojrosen, she too<br />
decides to leave. Bojrosen is left to live in remorse, deprived of love,<br />
happiness and peace.<br />
Behind the straight story of great tragedy, the story is a metaphor for<br />
life itself: the queen and the royal guard Kotal are unhappy not getting<br />
what they want, with Uttiyo even dying for Shyamaa. And Shyamaa and<br />
Bojrosen, the main characters in the story, also end up very unhappy after<br />
getting Swhat they want.<br />
ingers are critical for any dance drama. For Shymaa, the foremost<br />
exponent of Rabindra Sangeet, Pramita Mullick, from Calcutta,<br />
trained in Shanti Niketan, was the female singer, with Agnivo Bandopadhhay<br />
of Rabindra Bharati University as her male counterpart. Their<br />
well-modulated singing (in audio recordings) of Tagore’s Bengali verses<br />
elevated the quality of the dance drama.<br />
The main dancers all performed very well, among them Nandini Mandal,<br />
Hari Nair, Roosa Mandal as well as Kumudini Vankat and Paushaly<br />
Sau. Also, the large number of Nandini’s students — as flower girls and<br />
the sakhis, palace guards and others — showed great energy and passion<br />
in their roles. Hari Nair, as Bojrosen, nicely brought out the pangs in his<br />
heart depicting the sense of guilt for the death of Uttiyo and his inability<br />
26
Change language