Assam’s eminent theatre character Abinash Sarma has been bestowed with the Life in Theatre award for his contribution to the artwork kind, on the Guwahati Theatre Festival (GTF) right here. The award, comprising a quotation and a cheque of Rs 31,000, was introduced to him by the Chairman of the Festival Sunit Jain on the concluding day of the pageant on Sunday.

Sarma, on receiving the award, expressed his gratitude to the organisers for honouring him.

”Theatre has been my life and I hope to proceed to be concerned with the stage until the final days of my life,” he mentioned.

Associated with the GTF since its inception, 71-year-old Sarma developed a eager curiosity in conventional Assamese theatre types like Jatra throughout his early years, which sparked his ardour for drama and performing arts.

Despite missing in formal coaching, Sarma’s early publicity to the artwork kind and his revolutionary spirit allowed him to excel in areas similar to dramatics, writing, scripting and up to date artwork types, leading to a major and significant physique of labor within the performing arts.

He produced memorable and groundbreaking productions together with ”Aditir Atma Katha” and ”Momor Ghar” which proceed to impress theatre fanatics.

Life In The Theatre Award is an initiative of English weekly G Plus and Guwahati Theatre Festival since its inception to recognise excellent theatre personalities of the state with earlier recipients being Dulal Roy, Kulada Bhattacharjee and late Arun Sarma, Nipon Goswami and Surkracharjya Rabha.

The sixth version of the three-day pageant, which started on Friday, introduced three nationally acclaimed performs ‘Barff’, directed by Saurabh Shukla, ‘The Scent of a Man’ by Ashvin Gidwani, and ‘Blame it on Yashraj’ by Bharat Dabholkar.

The Guwahati Theatre Festival began within the yr 2016 with an goal to usher in nationally and internationally acclaimed performs to theatre fanatics of the area and has grow to be a landmark occasion within the cultural panorama of the area.

In the sooner 5 editions of the pageant, stalwarts like Shabana Azmi, Amol Palekar, Rajat Kapoor, Lilette Dubey Vinay Pathak, Saurabh Shukla, Kalki Koechlin, Rajit Kapoor Atul Kumar had carried out.

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