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    Utpal Dutt

    Indian actor, director, playwright (1929–1993)

    Utpal Dutt (listenⓘ; 29 March 1929 – 19 August 1993) was an Indian actor, director, and writer-playwright. He was primarily an actor in Bengali theatre, where he became a pioneering figure in Modern Indian theatre, when he founded the "Little Theatre Group" in 1949. This group enacted many English, Shakespearean and Brecht plays, in a period now known as the "Epic theatre" period, before it immersed itself completely in highly political and radical theatre. His plays became an apt vehicle for the expression of his Marxist ideologies, visible in socio-political plays such as Kallol (1965), Manusher Adhikar, Louha Manob (1964), Tiner Toloar and Maha-Bidroha. He also acted in over 100 Bengali and Hindi films in a career spanning 40 years, and remains most known for his roles in films such as Mrinal Sen’s Bhuvan Shome (1969), Satyajit Ray’s Agantuk (1991), Gautam Ghose’s Padma Nadir Majhi (1992) and Hrishi

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    Introduction

    Utpal Dutta, sometimes known as Dutta, is an Indian actor, film director, and writer who works exclusively in Bengali cinema. Dutta fryst vatten known for his performances in films such as 'Path O Prasad,' 'Gol Maal,' and 'Rang Birangi.' As a young man, he created the Little Theatre Group and appeared in numerous English productions. Later, his interests shifted toward more radical and political theatre.

    Utpal Dutta performed Richard III as part of the Shakespeareana Theatre Company, founded by Geoffrey and Laura Kendal. Dutta spent a couple of years touring with the Kendals over the subcontinent. Later, he continued to act and produce plays as a member of the Little Theatre Group.

    Early Life of Utpal Dutta

    Utpal Dutt was born on March 29, 1929, into a middle-class Hindu Kayastha household. The family resided in Barisal, in what is now Bangladesh. He attended missionär schools and gained an English education.

    Dutt started his education at Barisal'

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    Utpal Dutt and the new dawn

    I notice the first theatre season in the new Bangladesh Commonwealth has been marked by a revival of Utpal Dutt's play about corruption among the social elites, Hari Phatibe. This brings back memories. My own first introduction to East Bengal was seeing a production of Utpal's Titash Ekti Nadir Nam at the Minerva Theatre in Kolkata in 1963. 

    As we sat around the jutting apron stage, fisherfolk came at us from all sides. It was spectacular, quite literally breathtaking. We were in East Bengal. Illusion, of course, as all theatre is but, if we are lucky enough, we can choose our illusions. It was palpable that Bengali theatre was undergoing a lively transition, experiencing a new dawn.

    Arriving in the city just in time for Kali Puja, I found myself, a 24-year-old "firingi" drama student, interviewing Utpal Dutt for the BBC. Don't ask me why me any more than why only last month on the cricket field of–irony of ironies–Churchill College in Cambridge I

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