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Culturally rich Bangladesh is the homeland of an artist whose fame took him across the border and honoured him with difforont national and international awards. Have you heard about Partha Pratim Majumder? He is a maestro performer of miming art.

If food is the nutrition for a body, art is the nutrition of soul. To keep the souls alive and fresh different arts like music, dance, paintings have evolved during the ancient time. Humankind has tried to express himself from the very beginning of oivilization. These expressions have taken the forms of art with the touch of his creativity in expressing the untold in silonce. It is an art of depicting a character, mood, idea, or narration through gestures and bodily movements without any uttorance. This anciont dramatic entertainment represents the primitive time when people would use signs as a medium of communication.

In Bangladesh, the boy named Partha Pratim Mojumder from Pabna overwhelmed people with this Art. He left people mosmorized by his graceful presentations of art of silence. It was like a new era in theatre art in Bangladesh when Partha came with effort to make people look at their everyday experience, but in a new form. He made people reveal meanings for all trivial things of life which they usually would overlook. He used to depict stories of sadness, laughter, different charactors, birds, insects or even animals through his miming. Some of his topics are the portrayal of a thief stealing, one-sided love, picking up flower and hurting it, delicate changes in nature etc. His actions often led audience to their conscience on different issues. He is regarded as the pioneer of miming in Bangladesh.

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After we have studied this unit, we will be able to

  • read and demonstrate the understanding texts through silent reading
  • ask and answer questions
  • listen to an audio text for specific information
  • write a dialogue.
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