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Designed Lights for:






Kathak Solo Dancers		Padma Bishushan Pt. Birju Maharaj, Pt. Vijai Shankar, Chitresh Das (USA), Chetna Jalan, Rani Karna, Aditi Mangaldas, Ashimbandhu Bhattacharya, Luna Poddar, Sushmita Chatterjee, Shila Mehta, Madhumita Roy, Anuradha Nag (USA), Rita Mustafi (USA), Sujata Banerjee (London) and many more.

Odissi Solo Dancers		Guru Kelucharan Mahapatra, Ratikanta Mahapatra, Sanjukta Panigrahi, Aloka Kanoongo, Paushali Mukherjee, Sutapa Talukdar, Sharmila Biswas, Meenakshi Sheshdri (Mumbai) Sharmila Pal, Rina Jana, Debmitra Sengupta, Dona Ganguly and many more.

Dance Drama (Kathak)		Choreographed by Pt. Birju Maharaj, Pt. Vijai Shankar, Chetna Jalan, Rani Karna, Ashimbandhu Bhattacharya, Luna Poddar, Shila Mehta, Madhumita Roy, Aditi Mangal Das, Paromita Moitra, Keya Chanda, Susmita Chatterjee and many more.

Dance Drama (Odissi)		Choreographed by Guru Kelucharan Mahapatra, Aloka Kanoongo, Sutapa Talukdar, Sharmila Biswas, Rina Jana, Paushali Mukherjee, Sharmila Pal, Debmitra Sengupta, Dona Ganguly and more.

Classical Music/Vocal		Pt. Shiv Kr. Sharma, Pt. Hari Pd. Chaurasia, Pt. Jasraj, Pt. Balmurali Krishna, Ustad Zakir Hussain, Anoushka Shankar, Shankar Mahadevan, Shivamani, Bickram Ghosh, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and many more.

Drama		Directed by Shyamanand Jalan, Suman Mukhopadhyay, Bratya Basu, Debashish Ray, Nikhilesh Sharma, Jayant Kriplani, Israfill Shahin, Sarwar Hussain, Zahir Anwar, Kamal Hussain, Biplanu Maitra, Pradip Roy, Kunal Padhy, Wlodzimerz Staniewski (Poland) and more.

Others		Designed lights for Padatik, director Shyamanand Jalan, choreographer Chetna Jalan, Anand Shankar Centre for Performing Arts, Choreographer Tanushree Shankar, Uday Shankar India Culture Centre, Choreographer Ms. Amala Shankar, Mamta Shankar Ballet Troupe, choreographer Mamta Shankar, Priti Patel (Manipuri), SDIPA choreographer Shiamak Daver, Ila Arun, Kalyan Sen Barat, Vishal Kanoi and many more.

Festivals :

"Shristi" Dance Drama choregraphed by Padma Bishushan Pt. Birju Maharaj with appx. 200 students on 10 stages at Raddison Ffort, Raichak.

Design lights for Festivals organised by Kathak Kendra, New Delhi at Kolkata. Swarna Samaroh at Kolkata and Gantantra Mahotsava at Agartala; Imphal organised by Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi.

Designed and executed lights for "Kathak Yatra" choreographed by Pt. Birju maharaj for "Indian Festival In Europe" at Germany, Hungary, Polland, Holland and Spain, organised by Indian Council for Cultural Relations , (ICCR) Govt of India.

"OCTAVE 2008" a five day folk festival at Gandhi Maidan, Patna from 4th to 8th December 2008, orgnised by Eastern Zonal Culture Centre , Kolkata, Ministry of Culture, Govt of India.

Designed and executed lights for Incredible India @60 at Singplaza at Singapore, festival orgnised by Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre, Kolkata.

"Ritu Samhara" a dance collaboration of Kathak, Bharat Natyam, Manipuri, Odissi, Kuchipudi and Mohiniattam at South Korea and Thailand, orgniased by ICCR, choreographed by Pt. Birju Maharaj.

Lok Sanskriti Utsav 2009 organised by NERDP at Netaji Indoor Stadium, a three day Indian Folk dance and music festival.

"Rabindra Nath Thakur Festival", dance drama "The Child" only English poem written by Kavi Guru Ranidra Nath Thakur, dance drama choreogrphed by Tanusree Shankar. Toured USA, UK, Holland and spain orgniased by ICCR.

"1000 Konthe Rabindra Sangeet", Rabindra Sangeet sung by 1000 artiste at Netaji Indoor Stadium, orgnised by Sangeet Bharati Muktadhara.

"Folk Festival" at Rastrapati Bhawan orgnised by Eastern Zonal Culture Centre.

"Maximum India" at John F Kennedy Centre, Washington, USA for Tanusree Shankar Dance Company, orgnised by ICCR.

North America Bengali Conference, a 3 days festival at Las Vegas,

Closing Ceromany of "Days of India in Germany 2012-2013" at Berlin, choreographed by Pt. Birju Maharaj and chief Guest was Prime Minister of India, Hon'ble Dr. Manmohan Singh.

Also Designed Lights for :

Designed and executed lights for "Roopmati Baaz Bahadur", choreographed by Pandit Birju Maharaj at Holland (Netherlands) in 8 cities, organized by World music and dance festival 2002.

"Ramkatha Ramkahani": Dance Drama by Padatik Dance Centre, Directed by Shyamanand Jalan and choreographed by Chetna Jalan.

Designed and executed lights for dance drama “Andaz E Ghalib”, "Shikhandini" " Ghoongroo" choreographed by Ashimbandhu Bhattacharya.

Designed and executed lights for dance drama "Romeo Juliet" choreographed by Saswati Sen and music by Pandit Birju Maharaj and Luis Banks for Kolkata, New Delhi and Mumbai shows.

Designed and executed lights for Pt. Birju Maharaj-ji's production "Kathak Yatra" and "Utsav 2006".

" Sufism Remembered”,dance evening organised by Katha Dance Theatre, Minneapolis (USA), chorographer Ms. Rita Mustafi.

Designed and execution lights for Kathak evening "Ritu Rang" at "San Francisco" organised by Tarangini School of Kathak Dance, chorographer Anuradha nag in 2004 and “ Kshudito Pashan ” in 2006 a dance drama written by Rabindra Nath Thakur.

Designed lights and sound for Kathak Yatra at Agartala, Tripura, orgnaised by Kathak Kendra, New Delhi from 16th to 18th February'09.

"Kshudito Pashan" dance drama by Kavi Guru Rabindra Nath Thakur, choreogrpahed by Susmita Chatterjee under supervision of Chetna Jalan, directed by Kunal Padhy.
Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan night at Salt Lake Stadium.

TVS Sa-Re-Ga-Ma and Close-up Antakshari at Victoria Memorial Lawn by Zee TV.

Joint designer for Graviera Mr. India 1998 and 1999 with Viraf Pocha.

Designed and executed lights for World Dance organised by West Bengal Dance Group Federation.

Design and operate lights for the Show "SPECTRUM 2002" and "SPECTRUM 2006" and "SPECTRUM 2011 " organised by Ashok Hall Group of Schools with more then 7000 dancers at Netaji Indoor Stadium.

Odissi and Manipuri duet by Smt. Kalawati Devi and Aloka Kanoongo.

Fashion show by National Institute for Fashion Technology (New Delhi).

Disigned and executed "New Market, the old tales" written and dircted by Jayant Kriplani

Fashion Shows choreographed by: Marc Robinson, Asha Kochar, Sharmila Roychaudhury, Noyonika Chatterjee, Harmeet Bajaj, Rashmi Virmani, Shikha Rai.

Rajasthan Folk and modern Dance by Ila Arun, Mumbai.

Biswa Bang Sammelan at Salt Lake Stadium organised by West Bengal Tourism Dept., Govt. of West Bengal.

Others :

Supervisor for lights for AKS Choreography Festival organised by Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi.

Executed lights for Paul Taylor Dance Company (New York, USA) for their Show at Kolkata, organised by American Consulate General.

Has been appointed Technical Director in 1997 by Battery Dance Company (USA) for their South Asia Tour for 19 shows in 18 cities including Sri Lanka and in 2001 for 6 cities in India.

Appointed stage manager for Yakshini Kathak Centre, Japan for their show at Delhi, organised by Kathak Kendra.

Design and executed lights for Tanusree Shankar Dance Company all over India as well abroad including Doha (Qatar), UK, Holland, Spain and USA.

Designed and executed lights for Star Anand " Sera Bengali 2007" an award function at Science city auditoriumand "Nayak" a musical evening for Zee Bangla at Kala Mandir.

Designed and executed lights for 2nd Commonwealth Volleyball Championship for Men at Netaji Indoor stadium, Kolkata for Inauguration, choreographed by Kalyan Sen Barat.

Translated script from Bengali to Hindi and acted in Hindi Film "Ek Doctor Ki Maut" Directed by Tapan Sinha.

Also has done lots of shows including New TV Channel launch like Tara TV, Alpha Bangla, DD 7, and Film Star Night for stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Shaharukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Mithun Chakraborty, Sanjay Kapoor, Govinda, Rabina Tondon, Tanusree Dutta, and Shaan …..Etc. etc…