Celebrating a real-life prodigy
Years ago, Rabindra Sadan sparked to life when Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru inaugurated the center. Today it is the core of important festivals like the Kolkata Film Festival. It began as a small single stage auditorium but today it has flourished into a multi-theatre cultural complex centre with various other theatres and stages.
The campus embraces the Nandan theatre which is focussed on screening films and is also a cultural centre that raises awareness towards cinema. You will find young, old, the intellectuals and the literati making a beeline for Nandan to soak in the lilting air of cultural knowledge. This artistic hub of Kolkata also screens special programmes and memorial lectures along with the Social Communication Film Festival which is organised in collaboration with Roopkala Kendra. The foundation stone was laid by Chief Minister, Jyoti Basu in 1980 while it was inaugurated by the famed and respected film director Satyajit Ray on 2nd September 1985.
The Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi was founded in 1986. It was motivated by the vision to propagate Bengali culture and language in the state. The academy is modelled after Bangla Academy of Bangladesh and Académie française of France. Lastly Sisir Mancha which is also in Rabindra Sadan is a place for theatres. It came to life in 1978 and is named after famous Bengali drama personality, Sisir Kumar Bhaduri.
