Synopsis

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Ekti Obastob Golpo written by Bimal Bandopadhyay, is a powerful, humorous comedy with a dramatic twist at the end, giving a poignant social message.
As the drama starts, the Sutradhar asks the audience for their opinion on capital punishment and invites them to witness a real hanging. The jailer and officials feed the convict his last meal, the priest conducts the last rites, and what follows is a dramatic audio-visual display of the hanging at the gallows. However, at the end of the hanging, the jail officials discover that ‘Ka Mandal’, the convict, has actually survived. With a lot of effort they restore his consciousness, only to find that he is suffering from total amnesia. In a
desperate effort to revive his memory (in order to hang him again!) the jail officials and the priest re-enact the incident of how ‘Ka Mandal’ strangled and killed his wife five years ago.

The play within a play is extremely comical but at the end when ‘Ka Mandal’ does recall the murder of his wife, he has a different story to tell. The play will keep the audience riveted to their seats from the opening scene, regale them with laughter but make them go away with wistful eyes, pensive about the hypocritical society where the weak and innocent suffer injustice.