We have worked on a few storylines on our notebooks today. Most of the time, we tried to describe the physical details as we looked through some of the Black-and-White photographs. Now, the idea was to keep all these disjointed stories into a single play-like structure. To achieve this, we have decided to make the two characters as a travelling commentator on the situations we wrote today. There are more and more photographs and we can use these to further expand our ideas. Here is the idea for writing the play. [The photo is taken from Photographer MUNEM WASIF's Webpage. The photo is being used with no intention to infringe on the Copyright. The photo is being used for the purpose of Classroom Study and academic purpose only.] আগামী রবিবার আপনারা ক্লাসে এই নাটকটির প্রাথমিক কিছু অংশ লিখে আনবেন। পান্ডুলিপি অবশ্যই পরিষ্কারভাবে হাতে লিখা হতে হবে। লিখার জন্য একটি A4 সাইজ খাতা ব্যাবহার করুন। যে দু'জন ক্লাসে অনুপস্থিত ছিলেন, তাদের বিষয়টি ব্যাখা করে বলুন।
- Our central characters will be a horse and a man who has been made a failed businessman who has a small machine-shop in the Old part of Dacca.
- We can call the hose simply by the name Taj and give our man the name Badshah.
- The ideas is, as Apurbo has explained in the class, that we make an EPISODIC play in which the horse and the helpless businessman make a pact to see the world.
- As they pass from one country to another, one place to another, they come across many people and their shattered dreams. They compare their own dream with their OWN Dream and see which dream is more worthy.
- To bring in the element of a dream-play, we can make the horse a talking animal, and Badshah a Prince who regains his memory whenever he rides the Horse.
- We can make both Taj and Badshah make a running commentary on human life and society.
- Although I have tentatively named it উচ্চৈঃশ্রবার স্বপ্ন, you are free to choose any title that comes to your mind. Just make sure that it is lined with the play's dominant theme.
- Wikiapedia entry is Quite Detailed on this.। ভারতীয় পুরাণে - উচ্চৈঃশ্রবা (উইকিপিডিয়া).
- Please also consider the Myth in this link: উচ্চৈঃশ্রবা মিথ - নজ্রুল ও অন্যান্য ধর্মগ্রন্থে
- Let us see how far we can go.

Sir, as far as I knew that it was me Debashish Kumar who told the word 'EPISODIC PLAY' in the class, didn't I?
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