SUMAN MUKHOPADHYAY

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KANGAL MALSAT

Novel	Nabarun Bhattacharya
Adaptation and Direction	Suman Mukhopadhyay
First performed	February, 2006
Production	Tritiyo Sutra & Chetana

About the play

Fataru - Flying human beings
Choktar - Black Magic sect

Vodi Sarkar and his chief associate Sarkhel surreptitiously dig a hole by the Old Ganges River. They are looking for a huge resource of oil in the underground of Calcutta as predicted by the Soviet academician Kalinin (!!!!!!). Vodi, the head of Choktars, initiates a total war against the Government of West Bengal. Fatarus join hands with Choktars. Vodi's father Dandabayas (primordial talking crow) and Begum Johnson (a contemporary of Charnock and Hastings) supervises the historic insurrection of Fatarus and Choktars.
Total chaos is unleashed in the city of Calcutta. Skulls dance and fantastic flying-discs flutter in the skies and cry anarchy. Collective schizophrenia sets in. Government and Police are forced to surrender and offer a peace proposal. Vodi lays his demands and …

Director's Note

The novel Kangal Malsat blew my mind. Long time since I was looking for something that is as scathing and sharp as this. The political carnivalesque and the scornful burlesque prompted me to make a play out of the novel. The roughness, rawness and the immediacy are the essence of the production. I tried to maintain the agitational-propagandist spirit in the making. It is a play of our times, black times.

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