Director Salil Bandyopadhyay turned playwright with Asangato, staged in 1991. There are three families in this play - two nuclear families, and a joint family. The lives of four couples, three contemporaneous and one belonging to the previous generation – and two children, evoked either through actual presence or through allusion, forms the densely textured background of the play.
The spotlight is on 16 year old Reshmi, the only child of an upper middle class working couple, who had tried to electrocute her parents one night, and on her psychiatrist, a man embittered by his investigation of the individual and the social psyche , and badly in need of treatment himself. As he gropes for the reason as to why Reshmi tried to kill her parents, we witness an intriguing yet natural transference of relationship between the two.
Credits –
Lights – Badal Das
Music - Sumanto Mukhopadhyay
Direction – Salil Bandyopadhyay
Cast-
Reshmi – Saswati Biswas
Dr Chanchal Pal – Salil Bandyopadhyay
Nurse – Anita Chatterjee
Meenakshi - Arundhati Bandyopadhyay
Somen – Joy Sungupta
Partha – Abhijit Choudhury
Dadu – Chuni Dutta
Dida – Sabita Raha
