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
Atma3/Poet	Sachin Verma