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depicts the moral predicaments of a middle-class schoolteacher
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only a few playwrights had attempted a one-character play, but none had the full form of a play continuing for one and a half hours without break. Nurul Momen did not only adorn the play with witty dialogues, but also made the character recite poems and even sing. His conversations over the phone,
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with neighbours, with his conscience and lastly with his murderer is drawn in such an ingenious way that the absence of these characters on the stage is never felt. Not for once the audience can get bored because of the unpredictable turn of the events cleverly knitted in the plot.
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wrote, " In this play a fourth Unity is added to the traditional three unities of The Greek
Tragedies -- Time, Space & Action. A new experimentation has been done by introducing a new unity --- "Unity of Person" despite maintaining the format of The three unities. "
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his daughter. Surojit is left with no other option but to undertake several unethical actions. Eventually he wants to break free from the wrong path but he is denied by
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244:East Bengal
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1279:Nil Darpan
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1163:Utpal Dutt
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1048:Chitra Sen
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318:References
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252:Bangladesh
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1244:Barricade
1078:Kumar Roy
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544:Aly Zaker
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227:Natyaguru
216:Monodrama
205:Natyaguru
158:Natyaguru
67:Publisher
17:Nemesis (
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1254:Bireswar
962:Sundaram
952:Sansriti
912:Nandikar
614:KS Firoz
284:See also
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121:Rupantor
47:Language
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927:Padatik
917:Natadha
892:Chetana
788:Bohipir
781:Nemesis
709:Shabnam
277:Nemesis
271:Nemesis
259:Nemesis
257:Before
240:Nemesis
223:Nemesis
212:Nemesis
185:Nemesis
169:Nemesis
154:নেমেসিস
150:Bengali
145:Nemesis
51:Bengali
23:নেমেসিস
19:Bengali
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