TODAY One more Review Of ALKA is published in Kolkatas one of the most popular and leading English Newspaper THE TELEGRAPH and reviewed by Mr. Anand Lal. I am still waiting for your review Anshuman ji, Thanks A lot Anand Sb.---------- Manoj Mitra, one of the finest Bengali dramatists of his generation, has not earned as many non-Bengali productions as his achievement warrants — the state of intra-Indian translations being so pathetic. Consequently, one must applaud Little Thespian for rendering Alakanandar Putrakanya into Hindi as Alka (picture), even though it is not my favourite among Mitra’s plays. It has a basic melodramatic scheme absent in his best work, which pushes every character towards predictably climactic moments, and which translator-director-lead actor Uma Jhunjhunwala follows assiduously. At the same time, it presents a female protagonist who does not say die regardless of the most hopeless situations, thereby painting a positive picture of woman empowered. The rest of the main cast contributes equally: Azhar Alam as her invalid husband, Heena Parwez as their abused daughter, Poltu Polley as their son driven insane by ragging, Arpita Basu as the single-mother neighbour.
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