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Being well equipped both in Indian classical song and dance , Goutam is most successful in formulating a different style of acting of his own that has been influencing the Bengali stage even today. 

President and Director of Theatre Troupe Naye Natua

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Goutam Halder, the doyen of Bengali as well as Indian theatre started his journey as an actor – director in 1986 and from then he has been amazing the world of national and international theatre with his sheer mastery of the art. He has appeared so far in a variety of 100 different roles on stage as an actor and has directed more than 40 plays.

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The theatrical journey since 1986

Meghnadbadh Kabya legacy

His magnum opus production , a solo performance of the great epic of Michael Madhusudan Dutta , ‘Meghnadbadh Kabya’ in 1993 at once captivated the audience with awe and wonder and earned him national and international fame. It is commonly regarded as a milestone production of Indian theatre that stimulated the national  poet like Sri Sankha Ghosh to pen an article on it and another famous Bengali poet Sri Joy Goswami to compose a poem on the performance of the said epic

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Goutam Halder is a name revered as a mentor and tutor of dramatics and his relentless endeavor in conducting regular theatre workshops, trainings for the upcoming theater artists is a blessing to the posterity of Bengali theatre

Thereafter Goutam’s genius as an actor was proved in the performance of ‘Borda Borda’ , a short story by famous Indian writer Munsi Premchand .
Being well equipped both in Indian classical song and dance , Goutam is most successful in formulating a different style of acting of his own that has been influencing the Bengali stage even today.  With this versatility and brilliance of his acting skill Goutam has explored a completely new vistas of performing art where poems and songs get an unique and most enliving  way of theatrical expression and it becomes evident in his amazing presentation of ‘Kabye Gaane’ ( an enactment of poems and songs including Rabindranath Tagore ).

Goutam’s mastery of the genre as an actor and director is once again proven in the production of ‘Thakurmar Jhuli’ , based on a Bengali fairy tale where he has delved deep into the roots of Bengali folk culture and its strains to revive the very essence of tradition in modernity in a most entertaining way.
Goutam’s portrayal of the Shakespeare’s hero ‘Othello’ (in Bengali translation) is an instance how profundity in passion and brevity in expression can rich the pinnacle of tragic cataclysm.
Again Goutam’s proficiency in creating absurdity on stage with the magical effect is reflected in the play ‘Haoai’ ( Bengali translation of The Eleventh Planet by Evald Flisar).
Goutam’s other notable production includes ‘Matir Gari Mrichchhakatika’ , the classical Sanskrit play by Shudrak in Bengali translation , where all the elements of century old Indian performing art – songs , music , acting and aromosity converge into a crescendo of classical theatrical art.

Besides being an actor and a director Goutam Halder is a name revered as a mentor and tutor of dramatics and his relentless endeavor in conducting  regular theatre workshops, trainings for the upcoming theater artists is a blessing   to the posterity of Bengali theatre.

Goutam’s another achievement lies in the theatrical experiment with ‘Moimonsingha Geetika’ , a folk ballad of Mymensingh , Bangladesh , in which he makes a brilliant unison of music and dance form of traditional Bengal with  the tint of modernity enough. This sort of theatrical extravaganza undoubtedly  becomes  an inspirational part of modern Bengali theater performance.

Goutam Halder as Lecturer & Demonstrator

  • Georgia University in Athens, Georgia, USA
  • Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Scotland, UK
  • International Dance & Theatre Festival, Goteborg, Sweden – 2002