Aikyatan


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, editor of the Assamese daily Asomiya Pratidin Nitya Bora and others in 1976.
It has produced plays including Janani, Surjastak, Panchatantra, Night of January 16, and A Doll's House.
Formerly, the group was called Naxa Natya Parishad in the late sixties and early seventies. It staged the Assamese adaptation of Bertolt Brecht play Maa 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.
Aikyatan Sangeet Vidyalay, a school for learning western and Indian music was also formed by Aikyatan.
The group was most prominent in the 1970s and 1980s. In the early 2010s it was revived by independent filmmaker and writer Prodyut Kumar Deka, son of Aikyatan's founder Pabitra Kumar Deka.

Major Productions

YearDramaOriginal writerTranslationDirection
1976DhananiRatan GhoshPabitra Kumar DekaRatna Ojha
1977Akonihotor Suwoni Desh Tarun SarmaPranjal Saikia
1977Jukti TarkoAlbert CamusDulal RoyDulal Roy
1978Aikyatan Drama Festival
JananiArati Das BoiragiGovind Gupta
SurjastakC R DasGovind Gupta
1978Ahatgurir Natun BaatMahendra BorthakurNilu Chakrabarty
1979Asami HazirNeil GrantPabitra Kumar DekaAikyatan
1979Sinhashan KhaliSushil SinghaKrishnamurti HazarikaKrishnamurti Hazarika
1979Panchatantra Garima Hazarika
1981Hewers of CoalJoe CorrieSanjeev HazorikaSanjeev Hazorika
1984UpaharSharada Kanta BordoloiAikyatan
1984ChorusMunin SharmaMunin Sharma
1985Ramleela Uday Shankar School of Dance Music Ballet, Kolkata
1989Night of January 16thAyn RandUtpal DattaSanjeev Hazorika
1990Potola GharHenrik IbsenPadma BorkotokiSanjeev Hazorika
1991Mukabhinoy SandhiyaNiranjan Goswami & Moinul Hoque
2016Jonakar PoharLady GregoryProdyut Kumar DekaProdyut Kumar Deka
2018The Game of ChessKenneth Sawyer GoodmanProdyut Kumar DekaProdyut Kumar Deka
202427 Gaari KopahTennessee WilliamsSuresh KumarProdyut Kumar Deka
2026Aikyatan@50 Festival
MukabhinoyMoinul HoqueMoinul Hoque
AyurekhaSaurabh Kumar ChalihaProdyut Kumar Deka