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| Khaled Chowdhury |
Khaled Chowdhury is the pioneer of modern set design in Bengali theatre, the first person to think of using the structure of the set, lines and colours to build a subtext to help communicate the various layers of a script.
An idealist to the core, Khaled Chowdhury, now in his early nineties, has never sought publicity and has refused financial assistance from many sources. His theatre friends recently got together and unknown to him, four groups planned a festival at the Madhusudan Mancha from July 28-31.
Starting as a commercial artist and a musician, Chowdhury, who is not keeping well now, discovered his talent for set design in 1954 with Sambhu Mitra’s Raktakarabi. Since then he has designed sets and costumes for numerous groups of Calcutta, including Bohurupee, Bangla Natya Mancha Pratishtha Samiti, Nandikar, Sundaram, Theatre Workshop, Sudrak, Sayak, Anamika, Samikkhan, Ensemble, Rangakarmee and Anubhas. He worked even in 2000, battling failing eyesight and ill health, driven by his love for theatre and the desire to add a new dimension to each play.
Swapnasuchana’s Kanyadan, Nandikar’s Madhabi, Blankverse’s Furut and Gandhar’s Kachher Manush will be staged daily at 6.30pm. The proceeds from the show will be handed over to the legend who likes to be called a “backstage artiste”.
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