Delhi chalo: Rural theatre on Mamata's national dreams to coincide with LS campaign

For the following 3 hours, she struggles to grasp the mannerisms of an administrator and modulate her voice to match the character, the maximum fantastic in her 36-yr-vintage lifestyles as an actor. Sita Ghosh with a poster of the play. She has performed the position of Mamata Banerjee two times in advance, once all through the Singur-Nandigram conflict and once just after she assumed strength in West Bengal. (Samir Jana) As the neighbourhood falls silent, Ghosh eliminates her favorite red nail polish, nostril pin and wears an eye fixed with a leather band. She clutches a sheaf of papers in her left hand, paces up and down a longish room, pauses, takes a half of flip, looks at a replicate, increases her hand, throws a punch in the air to emphasise a factor, stares at an imaginary audience to grasp the role, best pausing to on occasion sip at half of a litre of 'liquor tea' her daughter has made to preserve her throat wet. Ghosh has a hard project at hand. She has to essay the position of leader minister Mamata Banerjee in a rural theatre to be able to be launched throughout West Bengal. Nephew to be TMC's Bengal face, Mamata to recognition extra on countrywide politics 'Mamatar Dakey Delhi Cholo (Mamata beckons, march to Delhi) with the aid of Lokbandana Opera may be launched simply after Diwali. We expect it to run until near the elections,' stated Uttam Maity, the director. Is it a ruling celebration hagiography? 'Whatever it's far, it's not mimicry. The venture for me is the same,' asserts Ghosh, who has acted for a number of groups consisting of Notto Company, the maximum famous outfit of the kingdom. 'As Mamata Banerjee takes a step on the national platform, the play will highlight the popular programmes of the leader minister which include the girl infant welfare venture (Kanyashree), coping with of the Maoist and Gorkhaland disaster and her opposition to measures which include demonetisation and NRC,' says Ashok Dey, the scriptwriter, who admits that the turbulence of an competition chief sells more than the challenges of a ruler. Durga puja politics: Mamata Banerjee sends out a clear message to BJP Rural performs, or jatra in Bengali, constitute a form of leisure that has survived onslaught of technology down the centuries and retained their popularity. Typically melodramatic and loud, these deal commonly with social and non secular testimonies and are staged usually in the fields, with the audience sitting on tarpaulin spread at the ground. Mamata Banerjee has usually recognised the electricity of this form of conversation with the hundreds. Incidentally, her party's slogan Ma Mati Manush first regarded because the identify of a theatre written with the aid of Bhairab Gangopadhyay within the Nineteen Seventies when the Left unseated the Congress inside the country. The play being rehearsed now seriously hinges on Ghosh, who has performed Mamata Banerjee, now 63, two times earlier. West Bengal spent Rs 32.5 crore on 13 inquiry panels, tables 3 reports 'When I played her role all through the Singur-Nandigram movements, she turned into an opposition chief respiration hearth. The subsequent time I enacted her function, she has just taken price of the nation. But this time, she is an administrator who's aspiring for a national function. So I should articulate the distinction,' says Ghosh. The earlier performs have been staged for a complete of approximately 350 times. For the beyond two months, Ghosh has been studying the transition of the Trinamool Congress leader. NRC now not viable in Bengal, says Union minister; praises Mamata Banerjee for lowest atrocities on Dalits 'The jhola she carried as an opposition chief is long past. She wears a thin chain round her neck. But she still wraps the white sari round her in a standard fashion and regularly wipes her face with one quit of it,' says Ghosh, who has additionally attended public conferences to observe her up near. Fond of fish, the fifty three-12 months-old actor is now punishing herself with a eating regimen. 'During the Singur-Nandigram struggle, Mamata become plump and I appeared greater like her. I was 63 kg, however have shed extra than five kg. Another couple of kgs much less would be first-rate,' Ghosh says with a smile. The actor become considered one of six kids of a bad agricultural labourer, who discovered it difficult to fend for his circle of relatives. Inspired by using a cousin, she executed on a jatra degree before she went to high school. She changed into only six-and-a-1/2-years then. At 16, she took to professional performing. 'The poverty I faced in childhood enables me empathise with the chief minister,' says Ghosh. On degree, she might be the part of a scene where the daddy of the chief minister -- who turned into a college student -- expired at a clinic and the circle of relatives did now not have the money to pay for his treatment. Jatra has given Ghosh a cozy domestic and recognition. But she nevertheless holds up a bit of paper as her maximum cherished ownership. 'On July 21, 2015 I were given this letter from the leader minister congratulating my acting prowess on my birthday. It became the maximum nice surprise I may want to consider. Before that day, I did no longer recognise what my date of delivery changed into,' she says. On July 21, Trinamool Congress holds their annual flagship programme that they take a look at as Martyrs' Day. Dailyhunt http://doodleordie.com/profile/timcookskitch