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The well-known plays of Arun Mukhopadhyay include Marich Sangbad, Jagannath, Ramjatra, Putul Nacher Itikatha. He won the National Film Award for Best Actor for the film Parasuram.

In 1942, Sisir Kumar Bhaduri established Srirangam which is now known as Biswarupa Theatre.

Sohini Sengupta has acted in films like Paromitar Ek Din, Icche, Alik Sukh, etc. Her famous plays include Gotraheen, Babli, Chitranggada, Bappaditya, Kanyadan, Nagarkirtan, Ajnatobaas, Naachni, Bipannata, etc. She won the National Film Award in 1999 for best supporting role in Aparna Sen's film Paromitar Ek Din, Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 2007 and ABP Ananda Award in 2013.

Bohurupee theatre group was founded in 1948. Nandikar was established in 1960 and considered as one of the premier groups of Kolkata. Rangakarmee was started in 1976 by theatre activist Usha Ganguly. Swapnasandhani was started in 1992 by Koushik Sen.

Dinabandhu Mitra published his first and most famous play Nil Darpan in 1860 about the plight of Indigo farmers. It was an emotionally motivating play which played a significant role in Indigo revolt (Nilbidroha). Kapalkundala is a Bengali romance novel by Indian writer Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. Published in 1866, it is a story of a forest-dwelling girl named Kapalkundala, who fell in love with and married Nabakumar, a young gentleman from Saptagram, but eventually found that she is unable to adjust herself with the city life. Rakta Karabi was Rabindranath Tagore's written play. Ebang Indrajit was Badal Sarkar' first play.

Madhusudan Manch is an auditorium located at Dhakuria in Kolkata. This was established in 1995.

Utpal Dutt staged plays like Tiner Toloar, Dushwapner Hagari, Surya Shikar and Maha Bidroha. Some of the other famous plays of him were Lall Durgo and Janatar Aphim in 1990.

The Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA) was the cultural wing of both CPIM and CPI.

In 1992, Kaushik Sen founded Bengali theatre group 'Swapnasandhani'. Some major productions of it include Macbeth, Jal Chhabi, Tiktiki, Punoscho, Birpurush, etc.

Rudraprasad Sengupta joined the Kolkata based Nandikar theatre group in 1961 and later became the leader of the group and started to direct several plays for that group.