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'''Binodini Dasi''' (1863&ndash;1941), also known as '''Notee Binodini''', was an Indian [[Bengali language|Bengali]] actress and thespian.<ref>{{cite book |last=Murshid |first=Ghulam |year=2012 |chapter=Dasi, Binodini |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Dasi,_Binodini |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref> She started acting at the age of 12 and ended by the time she was 23, as she later recounted in her noted autobiography, ''Amar Katha'' (The Story of My Life) published in 1913.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://sify.com/news/women-on-stage-still-suffer-bias-amal-allana-interview-news-national-kdlkOidjebg.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811140725/http://www.sify.com/news/women-on-stage-still-suffer-bias-amal-allana-interview-news-national-kdlkOidjebg.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 August 2011|title=Women on stage still suffer bias: Amal Allana (Interview) |date=11 March 2010|publisher=Sify News|accessdate=2 April 2010}}</ref><br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Born to prostitution, she started her career as a [[courtesan]] and at age twelve she played her first serious drama role in Calcutta's National Theatre in 1874, under the mentorship of its founder, [[Girish Chandra Ghosh]].<ref>[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20071118/spectrum/main9.htm Bringing alive Binodini Dasi] ''[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]]'', Sunday, 18 November 2007.</ref> Her career coincided with the growth of the [[proscenium]]-inspired form of European theatre among the Bengali theatre going audience. During a career spanning twelve years she enacted over eighty roles, which included those of Pramila, [[Sita]], [[Draupadi]], [[Radha]], Ayesha, [[Kaikeyi]], Motibibi, and Kapalkundala, among others. She was one of the first South Asian actresses of the theatre to write her own autobiography. Her sudden retirement from the stage is insufficiently explained.<br />
Her [[autobiography]] has a consistent thread of betrayal. She violates every canon of the feminine smritikatha and wrote down what amounted to her indictment of respectable society.<br />
[[Ramakrishna]], the great saint of 19th century Bengal, came to see her play in 1884.<ref>{{cite book |author=Christopher Pinney |author-link=Christopher Pinney |year=2004 |title=Photos of the Gods |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8hhXq7hpzSwC&pg=PA42 |publisher=Reaktion Books |page=42 |isbn=1-86189-184-9}}</ref> She was a pioneering entrepreneur of the Bengali stage and introduced modern techniques of stage make-up through blending European and indigenous styles.<br />
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==In popular culture==<br />
* In Dinen Gupta's [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali]] film ''Nati Binodini'' (1994) [[Debashree Roy]] played the character.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWSgyAgrW_s|title=Nati Binodini (1994)|website=youtube.com|access-date=1 March 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/pradeep-sarkar-to-helm-a-biopic-on-bengali-theatre-doyen-notee-binodini/articleshow/70895635.cms|title=Pradeep Sarkar to helm a biopic on Bengali theatre doyen Notee Binodini|website=The Times of India|language=en|access-date=1 March 2020}}</ref><br />
* ''Nati Binodini'', a play based on her autobiography, ''Aamar Kathaa'' was first presented by [[National School of Drama]] Repertory Company in 1995 with the lead role played by actor, [[Seema Biswas]], then in 2006, noted theatre director [[Amal Allana]] directed a play by the same name which premiered in Delhi.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/fr/2006/12/08/stories/2006120801500300.htm|title=Autobiography comes alive : "Nati Binodini", based on Binodini's autobiography "Aamar Kathaa"|author=Romesh Chander|date=8 December 2006|work=The Hindu|accessdate=2 April 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606125042/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/fr/2006/12/08/stories/2006120801500300.htm|archive-date=6 June 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/4376/Woman/Armed+to+go.html|title=STAGE CRAFT|date=8 February 2008|work=India Today|accessdate=2 April 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/fr/2006/11/24/stories/2006112401170300.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401160146/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2006/11/24/stories/2006112401170300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 April 2012|title= Lights, sets, action..: Nissar and Amal Allana's "Nati Binodini" premieres this weekend in Delhi. |date=24 November 2006|work=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=2 April 2010}}</ref><br />
* In ''[[Prothoma Kadambini]]'', Diya Mukherjee is currently portraying the role of Nati Binodini.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://m.timesofindia.com/tv/news/bengali/diya-mukherjee-joins-the-cast-of-prothoma-kadambini/articleshow/79407400.cms|title=Diya Mukherjee joins the cast of 'Prothoma Kadambini' |date=25 November 2020|work=The Times of India|accessdate=14 December 2020}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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* {{cite book |last=Spinazzola |first=Joe |year=1997 |chapter=Binodini Dasi |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y91tJFn5ejkC&pg=PA167 |editor1-last=DeLamotte |editor1-first=Eugenia C. |editor2-last=Meeker |editor2-first=Natania |editor3-last=O'Barr |editor3-first=Jean F. |title=Women Imagine Change |publisher=Routledge |pages=167–170 |isbn=978-0-415-91531-1}}<br />
* {{cite book |chapter=Binodini Dasi |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u297RJP9gvwC&pg=PA290 |editor1-last=Tharu |editor1-first=Susie J. |editor1-link=Susie Tharu |editor2-last=Lalita |editor2-first=Ke |year=1991 |title=Women Writing in India |volume=Volume I: 600 B.C. to the Early Twentieth Century |publisher=The Feminist Press |pages=290–296 |isbn=978-1-55861-027-9}}<br />
* {{cite book |last=Trivedi |first=Poonam |author2=Dennis Bartholomeusz |title=India's Shakespeare |publisher=University of Delaware Press |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-87413-881-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n5lKp1XE2OQC}}<br />
* {{cite book |last=Srinivasan |first=Doris M. |author-link=Doris Meth Srinivasan |chapter=Royalty's Courtesans and God's Mortal Wives |year=2006 |editor1-last=Feldman |editor1-first=Martha |editor2=Bonnie Gordon |title=The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=173–175 |isbn=978-0-19-517029-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U-iuYBiOkRgC}}<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
* ''Binodini Dasi: My Story and My Life as an Actress''. Edited and translated by Rimli Bhattacharya. New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1998.<br />
* {{cite book |last=Forbes |first=Geraldine Hancock |author-link=Geraldine Forbes |year=1999 |title=Women in modern India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hjilIrVt9hUC&pg=PG183 |series=The New Cambridge History of India |volume=IV.2 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=183 |isbn=978-0-521-65377-0}}<br />
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071225113507/http://www.newagebd.com/2005/dec/09/time.html Binodini: an immortal tale]<br />
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