District unit of Asom Natya Sanmilan bans show of ‘Lovita’ by Abahan Theatre

HT Correspondent
NAGAON, Oct 13: The district committee of Asom Natya Sanmilan as well as a dozen of prominent drama activists and individuals expressed strong reactions in connection over the remake of Jyoti Prasad Agarwal’s evergreen creation – ‘Lovita’ by the leading mobile theatre of the state ‘Abahan Theatre’.
While addressing a press conference at Nagaon Sahitya Sabha Bhavan on Wednesday afternoon here, the members of the district unit and other publicly condemned Abhijit Bhattacharya, a noted playwright, director of the state mobile theatres and sought immediate lawful action against the playwright as well as the producer of the particular mobile theatre group too.
The drama activists as well as other members of the Natya Sanmilan declared ban on the ‘stage show’ of the particular play of ‘Abahan Theatre’ across the district during the season too.
They however warned that henceforth if the mobile theatre group dared to stage the play in any place in the district, the theatre group would face stiff resistance from the district unit of Asom Natya Sanmilan. They also strongly criticised the state cultural affairs department for not taking immediate lawful action against the playwright as well as producer of the theatre group after it was strictly criticised across the state by almost all theatre personalities and other cultural activists.
Noted Assamese litterateur and storyteller Sibananda Kakoti; Natyapran and the district president of Asom Natya Sanmilan, Prasanta Sarma; secretary Suraj Kumar Saikia; Biswajit Borthakur, Mukti Bora, Jitumoni Mahanta, Prof Mohini Mohan Deka were among the theatre personalities of the district who addressed the press conference.