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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|1944 Bengali drama by Bijon Bhattacharya}}<br />
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[[File:Nabanna Bengali theatre scene.png|thumb|A scene from the drama.]]<br />
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'''''Nabanna''''' is a [[Bengali-language]] drama written by [[Bijon Bhattacharya]] in 1944 and staged by the [[Indian People's Theatre Association]] (IPTA) the same year under the joint direction of [[Sombhu Mitra]] and Bijon Bhattacharya, and in 1948, by [[Bohurupee]] under the direction of Sombhu Mitra.<ref name="Dharwadker2005">{{cite book|author=Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker|title=Theatres of Independence: Drama, Theory, and Urban Performance in India since 1947|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mLQaz-12Eo8C&pg=PA407|access-date=23 August 2012|date=1 November 2005|publisher=University of Iowa Press|isbn=978-0-87745-961-3|pages=407–}}</ref> The play is about the [[Bengal famine of 1943]]. The Bengal IPTA took the play to many parts of India as a part of its festival, Voice of Bengal, and it became a major success and collected [[lakh]]s of rupees for famine relief in rural Bengal.<ref name="LoweLloyd1997">{{cite book|author1=Lisa Lowe|author2=David Lloyd|title=The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital|url=https://archive.org/details/politicsofcultur00lowe|url-access=registration|access-date=23 August 2012|date=27 October 1997|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-2046-3|pages=[https://archive.org/details/politicsofcultur00lowe/page/438 438]–}}</ref><ref name="Ritwik Ghatak notes">{{cite web|title=Ritwik Ghatak notes|url=http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc47.2005/ghatak/notes.html|publisher=ejumpcut.org|access-date=22 August 2012}}</ref><br />
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== Plot ==<br />
The drama is about the Bengal famine of 1943 in which more than 2 million people died of starvation, malnutrition and disease. The main character is Pradhan Samaddar, a peasant in Bengal. The play presents the intensity of famine through the starvation of Pradhan Samaddar's family. Samaddar's family face a range of disasters during the food crisis.<ref name=LoweLloyd1997 /><ref name="Downing2010">{{cite book|author=John D. H. Downing|title=Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OSkKAOoaSGIC&pg=PA247|access-date=23 August 2012|date=28 October 2010|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-0-7619-2688-7|pages=247–}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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{{Bengali theatre}}<br />
{{Bengal famine of 1943}}<br />
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[[Category:Bengali-language plays]]<br />
[[Category:Bengali theatre]]<br />
[[Category:1944 plays]]<br />
[[Category:Indian plays]]<br />
[[Category:Plays set in India]]</div>Alimirza