Sesh Rokkha (শেষ রক্ষা)

Playwright: Rabindranath Tagore
Design and Direction : Anjan Kanjilal
Duration : Language : Bengali​


Rabindranath Tagore's Shesh Rakkha is a humorous play, combining incidents in a domestic setting.

Two friends, Nibaron and Shibchran, want to fortify their friendship through marriage between their offspring, Nibaron's daughter Indumati and Shibcharan's son, Godai, a medical student. Indumati is a very close friend of Khantomoni, the wife of young lawyer Chandra, and Chandra's house is the hub of all gossip and activities of Chandra's vast friends' circle, much to Khantomoni's chagrin. Kamolmukhi, the orphaned daughter of Nibaron's friend, stays with Nibaron's family and is also a close friend of Khantomoni.

Indumati treats Kamol like her own elder sister. Binod, another friend of Chandra and Godai, and a budding poet, hears Kamol singing and without even seeing her, decides to marry her. Through Chandra's efforts, the marriage is solemnised. However, within a few days, Binod realises that he is not capable of providing for his wife's comfort with his meagre earnings. In the meantime, Indumati and Godai meet each other through circumstances and fall in love with each other, but do not know each other's real names.

What follows is a comedy of errors, and a series of rib-tickling situations as romantic interests collide.
Shesh Rakkha, written in the late 1920s, is also a commentary on the society and lives of the upper middle class Bengalis of that time. The emotions and humour can be identified and appreciated even today, and it reaffirms the notion that Tagore is always contemporary.

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