Ant Nahin

Badal Sircar’s
Ant Nahi (1969) forces us to come face to face with those
questions which we brush aside while ascending the steps to success. Sumant Sanyal,
who is one of us, having reached the zenith of success is battered with these subdued
questions. The play teaches us how to interrogate one along these questions. Sanyal
meets those characters from his life who have shaped his personality as well as
his creative potential. He comes face to face with his mother, lover, professor,
friend, employer, and companion. He tries to negotiate with each of the accusations
framed by them. The play however not only shows a man standing at the juncture of
achievement and failure but also finds that his poetic endeavors are challenged
and addressed by those who fight the war of survival everyday and then pass into
oblivion. Thus he explores a new meaning of life with a definite purpose for his
own Being. In this process, Sanyal becomes simultaneously a convict, lawyer, judge
and spectator unto himself. There is seemingly no end to this tussle between success
and compromise.
On Stage |
Back Stage |
Sumant |
Tarique Hameed |
Costumes, Properties Execution |
Meera, Srijani, Radhika |
Vyakti |
Uday Bhardwaj/Meera Sitaraman |
Music Execution |
Ravi Bharadwaj |
Sumati |
Srijani Datta |
Stage Manager |
Hima S |
Mrinanli |
Hima S |
Coordinators |
Deepa VK, Raj Kumar |
Monica |
Ashima Kumari/Radhika Santhanam |
Rehearsal In-charge |
Manish Kmar |
Prashant/ Atma4 |
Satish kumar |
Asst. Director |
Tarique Hameed |
Prof. Shiv Kumar |
Raj Kumar |
Light Design |
Samkutty Pattomkary |
MNC/Atma5 |
Manish Kumar |
Script |
Badal Sircarr |
Anand/Moon |
Deepak Kumar |
Translation |
Ram Gopal Bajaj and Rati Bartholomew |
Atma1 |
Deepa VK |
Direction |
Samkutty Pattomkary |
Atma2/Tree |
Shan Rahman |
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Atma3/Poet |
Sachin Verma |
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