Achyut Lahkar (9 July 1931– 12 June 2016) was the father of the Bhryamyman or Mobile theatre, and gave birth to the mobile theatre in

Assam Assam (, , ) is a state in Northeast India, northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra Valley, Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . It is the second largest state in Northeast India, nor ...

in the 1960s. He founded the popular Natraj Theatre at

Pathsala Pathsala is a town in the Bajali District, now in Assam, India, with a population of nearly 11.5 thousand (according to the 2011 census) and an area of 2.74 square kilometres. Bajali is a newly formed district of the Indian state of Assam, ca ...

in 1963 which performed across Assam and in other states for nearly 40 years. He was a pioneering dramatist, actor, director and producer and staged numerous memorable plays on the mobile theatre stage. He also published and edited an illustrated magazine called Deepawali for some time. He was awarded the

Kamal Kumari National Award The Kamal Kumari National Award is an Indian Award given to individuals and groups in India for outstanding contribution to Art, Culture & Literature and Science & Technology. It was instituted by the Kamal Kumari Foundation in 1990 in memory of ...

in 1997.

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Assamese-language dramatists and playwrights 1931 births 2016 deaths People from Barpeta district 20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights Dramatists and playwrights from Assam {{India-writer-stub