Aikyatan is a progressive drama group based in Guwahati in Assam founded by humor writer and film critic Pabitra Kumar Deka, historian and former principal of Cotton College Udayaditya Bharali, writer Anil Kumar Deka, noted editor of Assamese daily ''Asomiya Pratidin'' Nitya Bora and others in 1976. It has produced many memorable plays like ''Janani'', ''Surjastak'', ''

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'', ''Sinhasan Khali'', ''Hewers of Coal'', ''Upahar'', ''

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'', and '' A Doll's House''. The play ''Night of January 16th'' directed by National award-winning film director Sanjeev Hazarika was also performed for Guwahati Doordarshan on the occasion of

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on 27 March 1990. Formerly, the group was called ''Naxa Natya Parishad'' in the late sixties and early seventies. Its most famous stage production was the Assamese adaptation of

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play ''Maa'' (Mother) based on the story of Maxim Gorky in 1974 in Guwahati. The play was translated by Pabitra Kumar Deka, advisor was Kulada Kumar Bhattacharya, direction by Ratna Ojha with music by Bhupen Hazarika. The People's Art Theatre of Kolkata performed their three famous plays called ''Kolkatar Hemlet'', ''Mrityuhin Pran'' and ''1799'' in Assam under ''Naxa Natya Parishad'' in 1974. The plays were directed by Asit Basu with music by Hemango Biswas. ''Aikyatan Sangeet Vidyalay'', a school for learning western music like guitar, mandolin & violin and Hindustani vocal & tabla, was also formed by Aikyatan. The school was led by music exponents Dr Loknath Subba, Pusparanjan Dey and Kishour Giri for more than two decades. Kalyan Baruah, an acclaimed musician of the country, learned guitar in the music school of Aikyatan during the eighties. The group was most prominent in the 1970s and 1980s. Since the early 2010s, it has been revived once again by filmmaker Prodyut Kumar Deka with the production of intimate plays like Apekhyat, Rising of the Moon, The Game of Chess, etc. Aikyatan performed a play ''Coffee Housot Apeksha'' under the aegis of Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA), Assam chapter on the occasion of its platinum jubilee in 2019 at District Library, Guwahati.

Major Productions

''Under Naxa Natya Parishad'' *1974 --- Maa (''Mother'') - Written by

, direction by Ratna Oza *1974 --- Kolkatar Hemlet - Performed by People's Art Theatre, Kolkata *1974 --- Mrityuhin Pran - Performed by People's Art Theatre, Kolkata *1974 --- 1799 - Performed by People's Art Theatre, Kolkata ''Under Aikyatan'' *1976 --- Dhanani - Written by Ratan Ghosh, direction by Ratna Oza *1977 --- Akonihotor Suwoni Desh (Opera) - Written by Tarun Sarma, direction by Pranjal Saikia *1977 --- Jukti Tarko - Written by Albert Camus, direction by Dulal Roy *1978 --- Janani - Written by Arati Das Boiragi, direction by Govind Gupta *1978 --- Surjastak - Written by C R Das, direction by Govind Gupta *1979 --- Asami Hazir (The Man who thought for himself) - Written by Neil Grant, direction by Aikyatan *1979 --- Sinhashan Khali - Written by Sushil Singha, direction by Krishnamurti Hazarika *1980 --- Panchatantra (Opera) - Direction by Garima Hazarika *1981 --- Hewers of Coal - Written by Joe Corrie, direction by Sanjeev Hazarika *1984 --- Upahar - Written by Sharada Kanta Bordoloi, direction by Aikyatan *1984 --- Chorus - Performed by Dipak Sangha, Dibrugarh, Written & directed by Munin Sharma *1985 --- Ramleela (Shadow Play) - Performed by Uday Shankar School of Dance Music Ballet, Kolkata *1989 --- Night of January 16th - Written by

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, direction by Sanjeev Hazarika *1990 --- Potola Ghar (Dolls House) - Written by

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, direction by Sanjeev Hazarika *1991 --- Mukabhinoy Sandhiya (Pantomime) - Performed by

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(Kolkata) & Moinul Hoque (Assam) *2015 --- Apekhyat - Written by

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, direction by Pankaj Kalita *2016 --- Jonakar Pohar (Rising of the Moon) - Written by Lady Gregory, direction by Prodyut Kumar Deka *2018 --- The Game of Chess - Written by Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, direction by Prodyut Kumar Deka *2019 --- Coffee Housot Apeksha - Written by Laxmi Narayan Lal, direction by Prodyut Kumar Deka

Major Productions

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