Ebrahim Alkazi

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Ebrahim Alkazi is a famous Indian theatre director, who was the founding head of the India's premier theatre training institute, National School of Drama, New Delhi. He was associated with training many well-known film and theatre actors including Om Shivpuri, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Manohar Singh, Uttara Baokar, Jyoti Subhash, Suhas Joshi, B. Jayashree, Jayadev and Rohini Hattangadi.

He has directed over 50 plays, including famous productions of: Girish Karnad's "Thuglaq", Mohan Rakesh's "Ashadh Ka Ek Din" and Dharmvir Bharati's "Andha Yug".

As the director of the National School of Drama (NSD), Alkazi revolutionised Hindi theatre by the magnificence of his vision, and the meticulousness of his technical discipline.

He was the first recipient of Roopwedh Pratishtan's the Tanvir Award (2004) for lifetime contribution to the theatre^[1] He has received awards including the Padma Shree and the Padma Bhushan for his contribution to theatre.

[edit] Further reading

Ananda Lal, The Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre, Oxford University Press (2004), ISBN 0195644468

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Debasish Dutta ,-One of the ex-student of Rabindra Bharati University (Drama Dept) directed his first production – named “Alabdha Banchha”,In the year 1996 , when he was just 19 .During 1998, Debasish attended a Directors workshop organised by “West Bengal Natya Academy”, and the workshop Director was Sri Arun Mukhopadhyay. In the year 1998, Debasish participated with a “Script Writing Workshop” organised by Natya Samannya, -and the workshop director was Sri Debasish Mazumder. On that workshop a drama written by Debasish Dutta named ‘Aparajita’ made a special impact. In the same year he formed a theatre group, Institute of Factual Theatre Arts (IFTA) and since that time he has been involved with that particular Institution as a Director. In the year 2001, Debasish attended the ‘Central Workshop of Theatre’ and he got the touch of some vibrant characters of the theatre world, such as Sri Kumar Roy, Sri Tapas Sen, Sri Rudraprasad Sengupta, Smt. Sohag Sen, Sri Pabitra Sarkar, Sri Suman Mukhopadhyay, Smt Usha Ganguly and many more. In 2002, he attended the Mime workshop arranged by West Bengal Natya Academy, where he got the touch of India’s one of the prime Mime Artist- Sri Yogesh Dutta. In the year 2002, Debasish participated in the festival arranged by Department of Sports and Youth Services (Govt. of West Bengal), In that festival his directed play ‘Maa’ created a huge impact in viewers mind . In 2004, Debasish participated Young Theatre Artist Workshop (shantiniketan) organised by Sangeet Natak Akademi. Workshop director was Sri Bibhas Chakrabarty. In 2005, Debasish carried his directed play ‘Chitrangada’ for West Bengal Youth Festival and stood first. In the same year, Debasish carried the same production for 10th National Youth Festival (Hyderabad) and got the ‘Gold Medel’. In 2006, he presented the same production again in 11th National Youth Festival (Patna) and got appreciation. In the same year 2006, he participated ‘Young Theatre Artist Workshop’ (East Zone, Phase II, Kolkata) organized by Sangeet Natak Akademi. The workshop director was Sri Satish Anand. And very fortunately Debasish got in touch of India’s some of the great theatre personalities in this workshop, such as Sri Ratan Thiam, Sri K.N.Pannikkar, Sri Nisar Alana and many more. Since 1998 to present time Debasish Dutta directed 16 production for IFTA in Bengali , English and Hindi also .Some of those are , ‘Ek je chhilo’ (Bengali) , ‘Ki kando’ (Bengali) , ‘Hritu sukhe bibarnno kavita’ (Bengali) , ‘Maa’ (Hindi) , ‘Bhut bhagaban’ (Hindi) , ‘Chitrangada’ (English) , ‘Sacrifice’ (English) .