A sketch of Shah Abdul Karim Boyati's life and philosophy
The 13th show of Mohajoner Nau has been staged at the Experimental Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. The stage performance left the audience mesmerised through out the 85-minute duration of the show. The 20 or so performers did a fantastic job of captivating the audience by singing and dancing to the live folk songs. It is a musical play based on the life of the legendary Shah Abdul Karim Boyati who has composed over 1600 Bangla baul songs. Mohajoner Nau was staged in the round or arena theatre more commonly known as the central stage with no curtains. As a result the audience feel very close to the performers in this kind of theatre. The performers walk in and out of the stage from among the audience. The play was written by Shakoor Majid, the famed writer of Londoni Konya, a television drama based on a Sylheti girl living in London, whom everybody wanted to marry in order to get a British passport created a lot of controversy. Although he had written a few dramas and telefilms t