KABULIWALA

Original Story

Rabindranath Tagore

Script & Direction

Arindam Ghosh

Production Year: 2014

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Cast
Arindam Ghosh, Oishee Ghosh, Jashoman Banerjee, Kamal Tushar Ahmed, Utatha Chakravarti, Surajit Dasgupta, Sujoy Lahiri

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Synopsis
The play is an adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore’s Kabuliwala.  It explores the universality of parenthood through the relationship between a second generation Indian American girl, her father, and an Afghan immigrant.

Mini is a second generation Indian American girl living on Main Street, USA.  She and her stay-at-home writer dad meet Rehmat, an Afghan immigrant.  Mini reminds Rehmat of her own daughter back home in Afghanistan and over time they develop a deep friendship.  Their uneventful happy lives get rudely interrupted when Rehmat gets arrested on suspicion of terrorism in the aftermath of 9/11.  He is shipped to an undisclosed location and all efforts by Mini’s dad to locate him fails.  The incident leaves a deep mark on Mini.  Time passes by and after graduating from high school, Mini decides to enlist. Before leaving for her first tour of duty in Afghanistan, she promises to “set everything right.”  As the play unfolds we learn of Mini’s effort to set everything right and the tremendous price she pays for it.       

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Performance(s) and Award

• Bsanta Utsav Street Theater Festival, May 2014, Washington, DC. 

• Best Script (Arindam Ghosh)

• Best Promising Actor (Oishee Ghosh)

• South Asian Theater Festival , Cincinnati, August 2014, Cincinnati, OH.

• Invitation show at Bangla O Biswa, October 2014, Boston, MA.

• 4. Invitation show at JU Alumni Association, November 2014, Potomac, MD.

• Invitation show at Prantik of Baltimore,  February,  2015.

• Invitation show at Greater Richmond Bengali Association, April 2015

• NABC 2015,  Houston,  TX, July 2015.