Ratan Lahkar

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Written by Samudra Gupta Kashyap , Ratan Lahkar was the founder-producer of Kohinoor Theatre, Assam's leading mobile theatre company, January 29, 2017, The Indian Express

Lahkar contributed immensely towards shaping the mobile theatre industry.

Born in 1940 in village Rampur near Pathshala, about 120km from Guwahati, Lahkar had first appeared on the stage when he was just nine years old, and took to theatre as his profession, founding Kohinoor Theatre in 1976. Known for the ground-breaking changes in mobile theatre by introducing innovative measures in terms of technique, acting, presentation and direction, Lahkar had also tried his luck, though unsuccessfully, in electoral politics by contesting as an independent candidate for the Patacharkuchi LAC in the 2006 election.

One of the leading groups among the 40-odd mobile theatre companies in Assam, Lahkar’s Kohinoor Theatre also holds the distinction of being the only one to have performed in the national capital in 2010 at the invitation of the National School of Drama.

Condoling his death, Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal said Lahkar’s innovative ideas and experiments had taken the mobile theatre industry to new heights. “Lahkar was a producer, director, playwright and actor whose Kohinoor Theatre, over the decades, contributed immensely towards shaping the mobile theatre industry into a huge sector that provides employment to several thousand people apart from taking entertainment to every nook and corner of the state. His death has caused irreparable loss to the state’s cultural scene, especially in the field of mobile theatre,” Sonowal said.