We have tried to grapple with these issues,” says Ashoke. Others had said that much of what he did was appropriation. And we also have others who critiqued him. His fathers name is Sanjay Bhardwaj he is a journalist, producer & director of Shreyon audio, video, film studio. We have tried to analyse his work, we have people who supported him, are fond of him, have appreciated the significance of his work. That rarely works, because the passion for it isn't there, it's motivated by an agenda. We decided to make the film because we felt the theatre of Badal Sircar is an extremely important subject worthy of debate and we tried to make a film that was not necessarily adulatory in nature. Now that the film has been made, the fact that it’ll get a lot of exposure at the international level is a thought that motivates me most of all. “It feels really satisfying, particularly so for this film because I was thinking of this project for several years. Badal Sircar & the Alternative Theatre will be screened at the International Film Festival of India today. The arguments put forth in this audio-visual essay relate mainly to his pioneering endeavours in the field of alternative theatre, which he preferred to call third theatre. The film Badal Sircar & the Alternative Theatre, directed by Ashoke Viswanathan, is designed in the form of a polemical documentary in which the work of the celebrated playwright and theatre director Badal Sircar is assessed and critiqued.
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