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| Indian theatre group ropes in hangman |
| 2006-11-26 |
| Nata Mullick, the hangman who sent 25 convicts to death dangling at the end of a rope, including a rape and murder convict two years ago, has been roped in by a theatre group for his talent in histrionics. "Enough of hanging. I have other abilities too, which I could not put to use earlier," Mullick, who last hanged apartment guard Dhananjoy Chatterjee two years ago for raping and killing a girl, said. "I have come to bring a smile on people's lips," Mullick who have also acted as a hangman in Mrinal Sen's film Mrigaya in the 70s, said. Desher shatru neta, Baper shatru beta (Enemy leader, father's enemy), a Bengali folk drama is already being staged in rural areas with shows registering large turnouts in south Bengal districts of East and West Midnapore and South 24 Parganas since October. Mullick enacts the role of an idealistic music teacher who tutors his pupils for free but fails to countenance his drug peddler son, whom he kills towards the end of the show, said Haradhan Roy, director of the play and an official of Mangaldip Opera, staging the jatra (folk theatre). Roy said they had been planning to rope him in since the hanging of the Chatterjee on August 14, 2004 but had to go slow on the advice of the administration as the hanging had evoked much passion at that time. |
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