They are three senior citizens. Husband – wife – servant.
They have a lot of personal memories of tears, smiles and emotions as individuals and also of a life jointly lived. They endure the present with all the duties they perform as compulsion. They combat the invading rats at home and the realtors outside. Shubhamoy is the only child of the family. As he comes of age he often stays out at night as life out of doors is more interesting.
All of a sudden, he returns home one night and says he and his friend Kamalesh have raped and killed a girl they found walking alone on an empty street. He says he had come home to evade being caught. His mother assures him nothing would happen and there’s nothing to fear. Police arrives but finds no trace of the offender. Few years pass by. One night a young man comes and introduces himself as Amal, Shubho’s friend. He says Shubho is working in a large company in Dubai. Despite lot of pending work, he stays back upon the elderly couple’s request and thereafter……………….
What happened next is the inevitable question posed by a gripping thriller. Who is Amal? What exactly took place that night? How had Shubho escaped? Was he unduly pampered by his mother? Do offenders never get punished? These and thousand more questions arise……and the play “Gorol” deals with them.
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Cast: Sima Mukhopadhyay, Debasish Chatterjee / Jayanta Mitra, Jagannath Chakraborty, Arkopal Talukdar, Apurba Kumar Saha, Avijit Dutta, Arya Jana, Debabrata Ghosh. |
storyline: Sayantani Putatunda |
Play wright: Mainak Sengupta |
Direction: Sima Mukhopadhyay |
stage idea: Sandeepsuman Bhattachraya |
Set Making: Madan Haldar |
Light: Badal Das |
Music: Arun Mukhopadhyay |
Music projection: Late Sanjoy Das |
Off Voice: Amrita Mukhopadhyay, Sangeeta Pal |
Make up: Md. Ali |
Director’s Note
The first reading itself of this story Sayantani Putatunda made me fall in love with theme. A "thriller "by genre, the story carries a distinct political undertone. Apparently, this commentary on social issues doesn’t just narrate a personal saga. The dramatised version by Mainak Sengupta retains the inherent duality of the story. This play is ideal for an actor to explore himself. The characters have ample opportunity to delve into their own being and discover the diverse manifestations of the "self”. We are all exposed to the regular instances of crime, inequality and multitude of double standards. Perhaps each of us is trying to raise a voice of protest in our own way. This play is a search for possibilities of protest against the ever increasing social and political decadence, we are lead to discover ourselves a new - our new faces on the mirror.