Sharmila in city

Sharmila Tagore was in Kolkata for a day on Saturday and I hosted a dinner in her honour at The Conclave. I had invited around 50 people from world of cinema and theatre and few others who were known to Sharmila personally.

It was a great party and all the invitees attended it including Rituparna, Arpita, Locket, Bratya Basu, Gautam Halder, Soumitra Mitra, Sunil Ganguly, Soumitra Chatterjee, Tanmoy Bose, Suman Mukherjee and others.

Before the party I watched the Gautam Haldar-directed play Raktakarabi at the Madhusudan Manch with Sharmila Tagore. The music for the play was composed and rendered by Ayyan Ali Khan and his brother Amaan Ali Khan – sons of the legendary sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan.

At the function I felicitated Sharmila Tagore on the stage offering her a shawl and a memento of Tagore. Sunil da and the cast and crew of Raktakarabi were also there on the dais.

Today evening I shall again go to The Conclave to attend a meeting of The Bengal with the team members.

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