A five-day long drama festival-‘Tirjok Natto Mela’- being held in Chattogram will end tomorrow.
Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud attended the opening ceremony of the festival as chief guest while noted drama-personalities Bivash Chakrabarti and Mamunur Rashid inaugurated both the ‘Natto Mela’ and ‘Tirjok Memorial Exhibition’ on Wednesday, organizers said.
Noted academic Dr Anupam Sen presided over the inaugural ceremony
while Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) mayor AJM Nasir Uddin and Power Division secretary Dr Ahmed Kaykaus attended the event as special guests.
The dramas are being staged everyday at the festival which started on December 25 and will end on December 29. Plays are being showcased at three venues: ‘Mukta Manchha’ of Theatre Institute, Chattogram (TIC), Lecture Theatre and Gallery.
Along with Tirjok, three other prominent drama and theatre organizations from Dhaka will also perform in the festival which began with staging ‘Tarongo Bhango’ of Tirjok on December 25.
The drama fair includes documentary film, photographs exhibition, drama dialogue, drama discussions, drawing competition of children, storytelling program, lecture workshop, recitations, debating, mime action, dance and rendering songs.
Drama personalities Ramendu Majumder, Asaduzzaman Noor MP, Nasiruddin Yousuf, Prof. Abdus Selim, Dr. Afsar Ahmed, Mannan Hira, Golam Sarwar, Ziaul Hasan, Moloy Bhoumik, Dev Prasad Devnath, Alak Ghosh are expected to participate in different events of the festival.
