Proverbs used in Soumitra Chattopadhyay’s Drama : Folk element in Modern Drama / সৌমিত্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়ের নাটকে প্রবাদের ব্যবহার : আধুনিক নাটকে লৌকিক উপাদান

Abstract

Soumitra Chattopadhyay is a famous film actor. In addition to acting on film, he acted on plays in stage. He wrote the Drama because, he did not get Original Drama from the famous dramatist of that time that satisfied him. He adopted and staged the plays by transforming Foreign Drama into the Bengali Drama. He is the intermediate man between Professional Theatre and Group Theatre. Basically, he wrote the play for Professional Theatre. But the Professional Drama stage closed for many regions. Then he forced to act and direct the play in Group Theatre. His drama specialty, he used the proverbs in these plays. The proverb is the element of Bengali folklore Literature. The use of proverb in Modern literature is inadequate. Soumitra Chattopadhyay used proverb in the drama to entertain the audience who came from most likely the village and semiurban society in the Professional Theater. Proverbs are not used in his Group Theater episode Drama. In our article, we have discussed how well the use of the proverb in his drama appropriately.