Baskhar
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Baskhar (Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury, 1930-2003)[1] was an Indian actor, dancer and painter.
He visited South Africa to play in Rabindranath Tagore’s King of the Dark Chamber in 1961. Union Artists brought the Indian director Krishna Shah to mount this production with students of AMDA and the renowned actress Surya Kumari. It opened in Durban before playing at the Wits Great Hall.
Sources
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/08/01/bhaskar-roy-chowdhury
Tucker, 1997. 158.
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