A theatre group in West Bengal, known for its productions on socio-economic themes, has dropped an artiste from a play after the actor joined the BJP. Saurav Palodhi, whose ‘Ghum Nei’, an adaptation of the Utpal Dutt classic on the present political situation of the country through the prism of Left ideology, had posted on his official Facebook account that the artiste, Kaushik Kar, was removed from the production for joining the saffron party. Kar, had been invited by Palodhi’s group ‘Ichcheymoto’ in 2019, to play a character whose name had a reference to the victim who was lynched in 2015 Dadri case on suspicion of eating beef. Palodhi, known to be a Leftist,...
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