The chief person behind the enterprise was Sri Pradip Bhattacharya, elder brother of present Rangasram Chief Sri Sandip Bhattacharya. Decades ago, another attempt likewise in the name of Cossimbazar School of Drama had been vanished away. The Rangasram activists did keep in their mind that the task was never easy. Their dream was to get at least a child from each household of Berhampore to learn t
heater and to turn Berhampore into a city of drama & theatre. The Management had adopted a year long theater curriculum divided into four semester each of three months. In the first year, the learners had received various lessons through participating in four different plays-Urubhangam by Vasa translated in Bengali and directed by Partha Bandopaddhyay, Garbhabati Janani by Bijan Bhattacharjee and directed by Siddhartha Chakraborty, Madhyanh Surya by Somesh Nandy and directed by Sandip Bhattacharya and Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht and directed by Pradip Bhattacharya. All the productions were given shows after each semester in an open air location. And finally when the year was over the learners were given appropriate certificates. Throughout the year various experts of Berhampore and off Berhampore taught the learners in a full spirit. But the project in the very second year met with disaster though there were fresh learners but the management could not carry on the full year course due to financial stringency. Continuation of the school of drama vanished away likewise but Rangasram did not give up. In 1997, Rangasram arranged a competitive festival of traditional Jatra troupes. 8 of such troupes did participate in that and many local stall warts in the field were given felicitation. For the next some years, Rangasram carried on arranging children theatre workshops, seminars etc. the baton of Rangasram was lifted by Sandip Bhattacharya and from then on they are doing spontaneous performance & other social activities....
