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Untold Stories of Common Man
Majerhat Station , KIPAF Kolkata 2016
I have done several visits to Kolkata and there are lots of impressions of city in my mind. The most striking for Music Band players gearing
up for upcoming marriage event they are going to play. The bundle of night lamps to light half ready with red coat and pant and shoes caps
in their one hand and other hand Chai glass . This was inspiration for my performance for IKIPAF performance which was going to be in
Ghats and metro in old city area I performed Untold stories of Common Man. The idea was to see from Common man point of view. From
my earlier trips I always wanted to know the city very closely and it would be a challenge to perform, although undemanding yet
complicated as we are also part of it but again to see through others point of view. City breaths in and out, hustle and bustle of the crowd,
you see faces of most common people like Chaiwala, laborers, small time vendors and many migrants from small town, the working class
and all kinds of people. City is alive because of these common people. The performance that I have conceived brings in the element of
common mans perspective and despite being nucleus of any city they merge in crowd and become common man in the society, you come
across many stories that common man becomes hero but again get lost back in nothingness. I am more curious how it would be to see the
world through the eyes of common man. I want to put my foot in their shoes being nobody yet important for society.