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| The man who threw a shoe in Kolkata | Views: 1907 |
| Dec 17, 2008 8:25 am | | The man who threw a shoe in Kolkata | # |
susmita dasgupta | | There was another man who threw a shoe at another man in Kolkata. The man who was hurled the show at was playing the villain in a feminist play. The man who threw the show was so moved by the woman's plight and hated the villain so much that in a fit of rage at patriarchy threw the shoe at the actor. The actor took it as his best compliment and to the Kolkatans of his time became the hero. The man who threw the shoe was a great social reformer.
The man who threw the shoe: Iswarchandra Vidyasagar.
The man who had the shoe thrown at him: Girish Ghosh.
The Bengalis of the Kolkata network, if any, will know the play.Private Reply to susmita dasgupta |
| Dec 17, 2008 5:29 pm | | re: The man who threw a shoe in Kolkata | # |
Jaydeep Chakravartty | | I have heard of Girish Ghosh and my parents did mention about this incident, just makes you wonder, we may have passed our golden age?
Regards,
JaydeepPrivate Reply to Jaydeep Chakravartty |
| Dec 18, 2008 4:46 am | | re: re: The man who threw a shoe in Kolkata | # |
susmita dasgupta | | But I am forgetting the play, which play could it be? Private Reply to susmita dasgupta |
| Dec 18, 2008 5:56 am | | re: re: re: The man who threw a shoe in Kolkata | # |
Kanchan Sen | | Nati Bonodini... perhaps... Private Reply to Kanchan Sen |
| Dec 22, 2008 5:14 am | | re: re: re: re: The man who threw a shoe in Kolkata | # |
susmita dasgupta | | Noti Binodini, or Binodini was the lead female in the play opposite Girish Ghosh. But the play? which play/ complete loss of memory. Private Reply to susmita dasgupta |
| Dec 23, 2008 4:14 pm | | re: re: re: re: re: The man who threw a shoe in Kolkata | # |
Savita Govilkar | | Heroin of Chokher Bali is binodini. May be this was the same play. Private Reply to Savita Govilkar |
| Dec 26, 2008 4:17 am | | re: re: re: re: re: re: The man who threw a shoe in Kolkata | # |
susmita dasgupta | | Could be Chokher Bali. But Binodini was the actor. I am not sure whether she was also playing the part of Binodini, the character. Private Reply to susmita dasgupta |
| Dec 26, 2008 4:39 am | | re: re: re: re: re: re: re: The man who threw a shoe in Kolkata | # |
Savita Govilkar | | Oh ok. Private Reply to Savita Govilkar |
| Jan 02, 2009 1:38 am | | The man who threw a shoe in Kolkata | # |
Ityaadi | | I presume the play was Nildarpan by Dinabandhu Mitra.
ItyPrivate Reply to Ityaadi |
| Jan 02, 2009 4:20 am | | re: The man who threw a shoe in Kolkata | # |
susmita dasgupta | | let me be a scholarly Feluda and try and find out. Private Reply to susmita dasgupta |
| Jan 05, 2009 5:13 am | | re: re: The man who threw a shoe in Kolkata | # |
susmita dasgupta | | Incidentally, Girish Ghosh never staged Nildarpan. The only play of Dinabandhu Mitra he staged was Shadhavar Ekadashi. But it did not star Binodini.
Vidyasagar died in 1891 and so whatever had to happen did before that.
It was in 1877 that Girish Ghosh opened the Star Theatre. The only play that could have been staged then with Binodini and which had bad character villains could have been Sri Chaitanya or Prafulla (the latter based on Bankim Chandra's Debi Choudhurani). It could have been Prafulla because the character of Brajeswar would really peeve Vidyasagar for his patriarchal attitudes. In fact Brajeswar is the quintessential weak character in Bengali literature.
So, it was most probably the play Prafulla.Private Reply to susmita dasgupta |
| Jan 05, 2009 4:37 pm | | re: re: re: The man who threw a shoe in Kolkata | # |
Ityaadi | | Alas! If you had just googled Nildarpan you would have found this information:
Nil Darpan (Bengali; translated as "The Mirror of Indigo") is a Bengali play written by Dinabandhu Mitra in 1858-1859. The play was essential to Nilbidraha, or Indigo Revolt. [1] It was also essential to the development of theater in Bengal and influenced Girish Chandra Ghosh, who, in 1872, would establish The National Theater (kolkata) where the first ever play commercially staged was Nildarpan.
So much for Feluda.............
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| Jan 06, 2009 9:23 am | | re: re: re: re: The man who threw a shoe in Kolkata | # |
susmita dasgupta | | Yes, the wikipedia does say that it was Nildarpan where Vidyasagar threw a show. But it does not say that Girish Ghosh staged it. Actually Girish Ghosh staged social plays as he sincerely believed in the sanity of the British Raj in bringing about a new society.
So either Vidyasagar threw a shoe at a non Girish Ghosh play in which case it is Nildarpan as you say. Or he threw a show at a play which was not Nildarpan and was staged by Girish Ghosh.
The latter sentence must be right because Girish Ghosh brought the shoe to Ramkrishna Paramhansa and if this story is true then the play was not Nildarpan.
The Wikipaedia is a contributory forum and hence facts presented in its pages are not always verified and correct. The Internet, until and unless it is an official site is not a legitimate source of citation.
Besides as I recollect Nildarpan as a play started being staged much later because Bipin Pal watched its premier. If this is the case then the play must have been staged later than 1905. Vidyasagar died in 1896.
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| Jan 06, 2009 10:59 am | | re: re: re: re: re: The man who threw a shoe in Kolkata | # |
Ityaadi | | Feluda!
Then what is the fact?
ItyPrivate Reply to Ityaadi |
| Jan 07, 2009 7:06 am | | re: re: re: re: re: re: The man who threw a shoe in Kolkata | # |
susmita dasgupta | | If the Girish Ghosh episode is incorrect, then Nildarpan it is.
If Girish Ghosh bit is right then the play cannot be Nildarpan.
I think that Vidyasagar, going by the person he was, could have very well thrown the shoe. But it will be a mystery as to which play it was.
Assuming that it was Nildarapn, one could also imagine that the shoe was preserved at the Star Theatre and when Girish Ghosh bought the theatre he collected the shoe which was preserved as a memoribilia, and presented the same to Ramkrishna Paramhansa. Girish Ghosh may have come into the scene as the rightful owner of the hurled shoe after he bought the Star Theatre. But then the lose end is how is Binodini involved?Private Reply to susmita dasgupta |
| Jan 07, 2009 12:00 pm | | re: The man who threw a shoe in Kolkata | # |
Sabyasachi Roy Chaudhuri | | I had heard the same story about Vidyasagar and thespian Ardhendu Sekhar Mustafi. Do not really know if it is correct though. Private Reply to Sabyasachi Roy Chaudhuri |
| Jan 10, 2009 12:46 am | | re: re: re: re: re: re: re: The man who threw a shoe in Kolkata | # |
Ityaadi | | Feluda,
The name of the actor on which the shoe was thrown was Danee. He had acted a Britisher's role in the play Nildarpan. Girish Ghosh had directed the play. The then the theater was not called as Star. There was a controversy while naming the theater originally as Binodini but was later named as Star. The shoe is still on display at Star theater.
Ity
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| Jan 10, 2009 7:18 am | | re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: The man who threw a shoe in Kolkata | # |
susmita dasgupta | | Great finding. I see that Topshe has improved immensely. Thanks a million for the insight. Yes, that settles the matter because Girish Ghosh directed the play and not act in it. Private Reply to susmita dasgupta |
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