Mar 05 2022 to Mar 05 2022 6:30 p.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

60 minutes | English

Written and designed by Vijay Padaki

Directed by Murtuza Khetty and Vijay Padaki

Kabuliwala Calling is the third event in the series jointly organised by BIC and BLT to celebrate the 160th birth anniversary year of Rabindranath Tagore in 2021-22. The story of the Kabuliwala was written by Rabindranath Tagore towards the end of the nineteenth century, published in 1892. That was more than twenty years before he received the Nobel Award for Literature. It was a short story, merely fifteen minutes in narration. It went on to become one of the most loved, most translated and most cited of Tagore’s works in prose. The deep bonds developing spontaneously between a child and a grown up stranger from two entirely different cultures is one of the strongest testaments of the goodness of humankind. The play Kabuliwala Calling is an original adaptation for the stage developed at Bangalore Little Theatre. The story is presented by the Kabuliwalas of Kolkata themselves.

Cast & Crew

    Naveen Tater portrays the Kabuliwala;
    Maitreyi DT appears as little Mini;
    Minti Jain and Murtuza Khetty are the parents;
    Ranjitha S is the grown up Mini, the bride to be;
    Karan Singh is a writer researching the Afghans in Kolkata;
    Vijay Padaki appears as Ajmal Khan, carrying the institutional memory of the Kabuliwallas of Calcutta.
    Aditye Nair, Mayank Tater, Ranjitha S and Vincent Fernandez form the backstage team.