Binodini Dasi [SEP] date of birth
Binodini Dasi
Binodini Dasi (1862–1941), also known as Notee Binodini, was a Calcutta-based, Bengali-speaking renowned actress and thespian. She started acting at the age of 12 and ended by the time she was 23, as she later recounted in her noted autobiography, "Amar Katha" (The Story of My Life) published in 1913.
Biography.
Born to prostitution, she started her career as a courtesan and at age twelve she played her first serious drama role in Calcutta's National
-adhure", "Begum Barve", Manjula Padmanabhan's "Lights Out", "Char Chaughi", "Teen takke ka swang". Though her most talked about production has been "Nati Binodini" (2006), which she directed after discovering the autobiography of early 20th century, courtesan turned Bengali stage actress, Binodini Dasi, after two years of research, the result was a play which according to theatre critic, Romesh Chander was "her best production till date".
The first ever all-