Nandikar

Nandikar's story begins on 29 June 1960 at maternal uncle's house of Asit Bandyopadhyay at B K Pal Avenue.

The group's early productions were mainly adaptations of non-Indian dramas, such as Six Characters in Search of a Playwright (Luigi Pirandale's' Six Characters in Search of an Author '), Manzuri Amer Manzuri (Chekhov's' Cherry Orchard'), Jokhan Ika (Arnold ',' Arnold ' Sher Afghan (Pirandello's 'Henry Eve') and the three-penny turn (Bertolt Brecht's 'Three Penny Opera').

With Rudraprasad Sengupta as the main director, a new era started, and Nandikar turned from a pure performance-oriented theatre group to an organisation with a wide range of projects, including the annual National Theatre Festival.

Among the group's present actresses and actors are Swatilekha Sengupta, who starred in Satyajit Ray's movie Ghare Baire (The Home and the World) (1984) and Roland Joffé's City of Joy (1992), Goutam Halder, (he has left the group and formed a new one, initially becoming its director), Debshankar Halder, Sohini Sengupta, who acted in Aparna Sen's movie Paromitar Ek Din (2000), and Rudraprasad Sengupta himself.

However, during the last decade, the group has performed in several countries outside India, including Bangladesh, Germany, Sweden, UK, and United States.