Santanu Bose

He came back to India and started working as a lecturer in art direction at Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata and later he joined the National School of Drama as assistant professor of World drama.^[5] He has also taught as visiting faculty at Rabindra Bharati University, University of Hyderabad, Jamia Milia University, and Indira Gandhi Nation Open University.^{[citation needed]}

Bose received critical acclaim as an actor in the short film Sunder Jeebon, directed by Sandeep Chaterjee.^[6] He has done research and sections of dialogue for the Film "Name of a River" by Anup Singh^[7][8] and done Art Direction for the film Reaching Silence by Jahar Kanungo.^[9]

He has also created over 60 theatre pieces in India, England, Australia, Germany, France and Belgium.^{[citation needed]} In 2000, he founded Monirath Theatre Group, in Calcutta. The German-Indian theatre collaborations with the Goethe Institute Calcutta have been an important part in the work done by his group.^[10] Some of the notable works are:

• Sophocles's Antigone^[11]
• Macbeth Question^[12]
• Goethe's Faust
• Widowed Pimp & House of Horrors^[13]
• Bertolt Brecht and Elizabeth Hauptmann's Threepenny Opera^[14]
• Mahasweta Devi's Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa^[15]
• Raddi Bazaar^[16]
• Kala Khatta Chuski Kholi Khokha Khopcha^[17]
• Girish Karnad's Raktkalyan^[18]
• Sottor-Uttor^[19]
• Roddur Wala Goli^[20]

• Theatre of India
• Bengali theatre