Avijatri Theatre Festival
Ashokenagar Avijatri Sanaskritic Sanastha (popularly known as AVIJATRI)organise a 5 day ‘All Bengal Theatre Festival’ every year, during the holidays of 23 and 26 January since 1997. About 252 plays acted by the teams from almost every corner of the state. Drama loving people of proper and the adjacent locality of Ashokenagar rushed-out at the ‘Shahid Sadan’ on those days. The last year in 2012 including 'Nandikar' with their best current production 'Madhabi' other 13 theatre groups participate in the festival.
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