Jyotsnakumari

Gadbandipur is a village located at the frontier of India and Bangladesh. The drama narrates the tragic story of a woman who lives in this village. The village people call her Jyotsnakumari as her complexion resembles the colour of the moonlight. Babaji and Trilochan, two friends, pull cycle vans in this village. In their idle hours, Babaji sings and Trilochan plays khol. Babaji stays at the house of Trilochan. One day Trilochan discovers Jyotsnakumari lying over a bush and takes her home.

There are different kinds of greed and lust in the daily life of the people living in a frontier village. The village people denounce Jyotsnakumari as a witch. A local hooligan designs ways to sell her somewhere. Jamni, Trilochan’s wife, tries to save her. Babaji gives her a marriage proposal. There is strife at Trilochan’s house over this issue. The new doctor of the village stands by Jyotsnakumari. Trilochan has a filial love for this lady. But what religion is she? Hindu or Muslim? She says her name is Bina on one occasion, and Fatima on the other. The brutally raped woman cries out time and again, “Want to make a feast of me? Then do it.” middlemen becomes transparent before us.

But this brutalised woman of the earth is somewhat different in the sky — an unworldly moonlit woman.

Sunil Gangopadhyay once wrote:“There is continuous gambling for light, air, darkness and women on this earth.”There is no end of this even today. Who knows where the end is…!