About Badal Babu

Badal Sarkar is a famous Indian dramatist. He has written more than fifty plays of which Ebong Indrajit and Basi Khabar are well known literary pieces. He is actively involved with Bengali theatre.
He rose to prominence in the 1970's and was one of the leading figures in the revival of street theater in Bengal. He revolutionized Bengali theatre with his angst-ridden, anti-establishment plays during the Naxalite movement. He has been awarded the Padma Shri in 1972, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1968 and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, Ratna Sadsya , in 1997.
Some of his famous plays are Evam Indrajit , Shesh Naai , Basi Khabar , Baaki Itihaash , Pagla Ghoda , Prastava , Juloos ,Bhoma , Saari raat , Badi bua ji , Kavi kahini etc.
His plays reflected the atrocities that prevailed in the society, the decayed hierarchical system and were socially enlightening.He is a proponent of the "Third theatre" movement that stood ideologically against the state.Third theatre involved street plays, with actors being attired no differently than the audience.Also the formal bindings of the proscenium theatre was given up.Sarkar's "Bhoma" is an example of a third theatre play,set,as always,in an urban background.
"Badi bua ji" is a family drama while "Pagla ghoda" creates a ghostly hymn and depicts four different women .What I believe , Badal babu uses every poetic word in his plays . You can find pun in every word .