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In recent times, one-act plays have become very popular and contemporary playwrights mostly get inclined to compose one-act plays. Even in the recent past, Bengali Drama did not have too many one-act plays to boast of, except those of Manmath Roy. Most of the formidable playwrights, in recent times are experimenting with a multitude of one-act plays.
Manmatha Roy can be regarded as the father of Bengali one-act play. Besides, some of the plays of Girish Ghosh Amritlal and Dwijendralal are also considered as exquisite one-act plays. Some verse-plays, and comedies of Rabindranath are also regarded as scintillating specimens of one-act plays.
Some of the spectacular one-act plays worth mentioning are Manmath
Roy's 'Bidyutparna', 'Bishkanya', 'Upachaar', 'Totapara' etc.
Let us now go through some marvelous one-act plays and their composers
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Playwright
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One-act
plays
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1.
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Banphool
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'Shikh
Kabab', 'Banaprastha'
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2.
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Digindra
Chandra Bandopaddhaya
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'Purna
Graash Apachey'
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3.
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Bidhyak
Bhattacharja
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'Kanna
HashirPala'
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4.
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Salil
Sen
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'Sanyasi'
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5.
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Kiran
Moitra
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'Budbudl',
'Bhagye Lekha'
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6.
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Sunil
Dutta
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'Loothta
Raj'
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7.
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Bidyut
Basu
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Learning
from the Burning Ghat
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8.
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Ajit
Gangopaddhaya
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'Surjer
Mato Samudra'
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9.
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Sailesh
Guha Niyogi
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'Bidishi',
'Rehearsal', 'Gol Park', 'Politics', 'Flu'
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10.
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Bimal
Roy
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'Antarale',
'Bridge', 'Graha Sammelan', 'The New Sri
Hari Opera'
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11.
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Utpal
Dutta
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'Neel
Kantha', 'Samadhan'
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12.
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Rabindranath
Bhattacharya
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'Rakte
Roa Dhaan'
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13.
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Jochhan
Dastidar
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'Pangapal',
'Kalo Matir Kanna'
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14.
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Manoj
Mitra
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'Tapur
Tupur'
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15.
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Ajitesh
Bandopaddhaya
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'Nana
Ranger Din'
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16.
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Ratan
Kumar Ghosh
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'Pitamahader
Uddeshye'
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17.
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Radha
Raman Ghosh
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'Haradhaner
Dashti Chhele', 'Satabder Padabali', 'Itihaas
Kande'
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18.
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Amal
Roy
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'Keona
Manush'
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