Shyamanand Jalan was a Kolkata-based Indian theatre director, and actor. He is credited for the renaissance period of modern Indian theatre and especially the Hindi theatre in Kolkata from the 1960s to 1980s. He was the first to perform modernist Mohan Rakesh, starting with Ashadh Ka Ek Din in 1960 and in the coming years bridged the gap between Hindi theatre and Bengali theatre, by mounting Hindi productions of works by Bengali playwrights, like Badal Sircar's Evam Indrajit (1968) and Pagla Ghora (1971), which in turn introduced Sircar to rest of the country. His big screen venture Eashwar Mime Co. (2005) was an adaptation of Dibyendu Palit's story, Mukhabhinoy, by Vijay Tendulkar.
Biography from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA.
Movies & shows — tap any title to see where it streams
