Khaled Choudhury

Born on December 20, 1919, in Karimganj, Assam, a British Indian state at the time, Khaled Choudhury is the son of Chandranath Dutta Choudhury, and Hem Nalini. Chirakumar was named after his grandmother's brother, Gurusaday Dutt, but his father later changed it to Chiraranjan Dutta Choudhury. Due to Personal reasons, he changed his name to Khaled Choudhury in 1943. In 1945, he relocated to Kolkata. Khaled Choudhury was a Bengali theatre personality and artist. He worked for various directors of Bengali and Hindi plays, including Sombhu Mitra, Tripti Mitra Tripti Mitra is a noted Bengali actress of theater >> Read More... , and Shyamanand Jalan Shyamanand Jalan is a Bengali director and screenw >> Read More... , creating the stage, sets, and costumes, and later as music director. He was a single man. On January 26, 2012, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan for contributing to theatre in India's Republic Day Honours List. In 1945, he joined the Indian People's Theatre Association, also known as the Bharatiya Gananatya Sangha, in Kolkata.

Contributing artistic talent drawing, painting, folk music, and western music. In 1947, he joined the shadow theatre Shahider Daak. He joined Bohurupee Productions in 1953. Later, Khaled Choudhury was primarily involved with many theatre groups as a Stage Director. With Bohurupee Productions, he was involved in the plays Dharmaghat (1953), Rakta Karabi (1954), Swargiya Prahasan (1955), Angshidaar (1955), Daakghar (1957), Putul Khela (1958), Barbar Baanshi (1969), Kingbadanti (1970), Pagla Ghora (1971), Gandaar (1972), Jajaati (1988); which were directed by Shobhu Mita, Tripti Mitra, Amar Gangopadhyay and Kumar Roy Bio coming soon... >> Read More... . With Calcutta Theatre Productions, he worked in Gotraantar (1959), and 1966 Debigarjan (1966) directed by Bijon Bhattacharya Bijon Bhattacharya is an Indian film and theatre p >> Read More... . He also worked with Mukhosh Theatre Centre Productions for the plays Rajanigandhaa and Aar Hobey Na Deri, directed by Tarun Ray.

He worked with Bohurupee Productions on the plays Dharmaghat (1953), Rakta Karabi (1954), Swargiya Prahasan (1955), Angshidaar (1955), Daakghar (1957), Putul Khela (1958), Barbar Baanshi (1969), Kingbadanti (1970), Pagla Ghora (1971) , Gandaar (1972), and Jajaati (1988), directed by Shobhu Mita, Tripti Mitra He worked with Calcutta Theatre Productions on Gotraantar (1959) and Debigarjan (1966), both directed by Bijon Bhattacharya. He also collaborated with Mukhosh Theatre Centre Productions on Tarun Ray's plays Rajanigandhaa and Aar Hobey Na Deri. Under the banner of Anaamika Productions, he also worked on several Hindi plays directed by Shyamanand Jalan. Khelaghar Productions' play "Chokher Bali" became a renowned classic and was adapted for film. After decades, Aishwarya Rai and Ajay Devgan Ajay Devgn is an Indian film actor. He is perhaps >> Read More... starred in the most recent Hindi film adaptation. Khaled Choudhury became interested in folk music and folklore research in the 1960s.

When the Folk Music and Folklore Research Institute was established in 1965, he became its secretary. A large amount of folk music from eastern India was collected and donated to the Lokasanskriti o Adivasisanskriti Kendra (Government of West Bengal's Centre for Folk and Adivasi Culture). He wrote many books about theatre, mainly in Bengali. Some of these were Theatre Shilpo Bhabona (Artistic Thought in Theatre), Lokoshongiter Prasangikota o Onyano Prabondho (Relevance of Folk Music and Other Essays) published by Loksanskriti o. Khaled Chowdhury has received far too many honors to list here. Sangeet Natak Academy Award (1986); D.Litt (Honoris Causa) from Rabindra Bharati University (2000); D.Litt (Honoris Causa) from Vidyasagar University (2002); Kalidas Samman from the Government of Madhya Pradesh (2005); Dinabandhu Puraskar from the Pashchimbanga Natya Akademi, Government of West Bengal (2005); Paschim Bang (2012).