Mamata pays homage to legendary actor Utpal Dutt on his birth anniversary

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today paid homage to legendary actor and play-wright Utpal Dutt on his birth anniversary. “Homage to legendary actor and play-wright Utpal Dutt on his birth anniversary,” Ms Banerjee tweeted.

Dutt was born 88 years ago on March 29, 1929. He began his career as a stage actor when he was a schoolboy, in Shakespeare’s Richard III. He took theatre beyond the geographical parameters of the stage.

Like Augusto Boal, Dutt felt that all theatre is political. He never wearied of stressing that theatre could never be meaningful if does not consider the political ethos within which it has to negotiate the terms of the volatile and fluctuating relationships between and among human beings.