{"id":674,"date":"2026-01-13T06:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/2026\/01\/13\/gandharba-to-showcase-moi-aru-mur-saa-celebrating-bhupen-hazarika-birth-centenary-at-bharat-rang-mahotsav-in-kolkata\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T22:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:26:33","slug":"gandharba-to-showcase-moi-aru-mur-saa-celebrating-bhupen-hazarika-birth-centenary-at-bharat-rang-mahotsav-in-kolkata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/2026\/01\/13\/gandharba-to-showcase-moi-aru-mur-saa-celebrating-bhupen-hazarika-birth-centenary-at-bharat-rang-mahotsav-in-kolkata\/","title":{"rendered":"Gandharba to Showcase \u2018Moi Aru Mur Saa\u2019 Celebrating Bhupen Hazarika birth centenary at Bharat Rang Mahotsav in Kolkata"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A heartfelt tribute to Sudhakantha, Bharat Ratna Dr. Bhupen Hazarika, marks his birth centenary. Across Assam and India, various government and non-government organisations are commemorating the occasion through music, dance, painting, and diverse art forms to honour the legendary icon. Yet, perhaps uniquely, <em>Gandharba<\/em>\u2014a non-professional theatre group from Guwahati\u2014is paying homage through the powerful medium of drama, celebrating the artist\u2019s vibrant life and monumental creative legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Maligaon\u2019s Boripara, the acting and music academy <em>Gandharba<\/em> recently hosted its third annual theatre festival at the Karmashree Hiteswar Saikia Auditorium this December. The group unveiled <em>Moi Aru Mur Saa<\/em> (Me and My Shadow), a play beautifully woven around the inspiring journey of Bharat Ratna Dr. Bhupen Hazarika. The production received an overwhelming response from a diverse audience, transcending linguistic boundaries. The evening was further enriched by the presence of Dr. Hazarika\u2019s family members and representatives of the Dr. Bhupen Hazarika Cultural Trust, who, along with an appreciative audience, praised the play as one of the finest theatrical tributes in the centenary celebrations, urging its staging at both state and national platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to the media, <em>Gandharba<\/em> editor <strong>Dhrubajyoti Kumar<\/strong> announced that <em>Moi Aru Mur Saa<\/em> has been invited to perform at the <strong>Bharat Rang Mahotsav (BRM)<\/strong> -India\u2019s largest international theatre festival &#8211; organised by the National School of Drama (NSD), New Delhi. He shared that the National School of Drama has scheduled the play for <strong>February 3, 2026<\/strong>, at the Purbashree Auditorium of EZCC, Park Street, Kolkata -a city deeply intertwined with Dr. Bhupen Hazarika\u2019s musical, cinematic, literary, journalistic, and creative pursuits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <em>Gandharba<\/em> team, along with its editor, has expressed profound gratitude to the National School of Drama for conferring upon them the rare privilege of presenting this theatrical tribute to Dr. Bhupen Hazarika in Kolkata during his birth centenary celebrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> <strong>Prantik Deka<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A heartfelt tribute to Sudhakantha, Bharat Ratna Dr. Bhupen Hazarika, marks his birth centenary. Across Assam and India, various government and non-government organisations are commemorating the occasion through music, dance, painting, and diverse art forms to honour the legendary icon. Yet, perhaps uniquely, Gandharba\u2014a non-professional theatre group from Guwahati\u2014is paying homage through the powerful medium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-main-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/assam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}