Nilakantha Sengupta was born in
Kotalipara of Faridpur (now
Gopalganj District during
British India. Nilkantha was the fifth son of his parents and very talented but immersed in the study of drama. Leaving the carefree confines of government jobs, he started a new chapter in the world of Bengali theatre. Within a short period of time, it became a popular theatre group in Kolkata. On 23rd November 1974, under the direction of Nilakantha Sengupta,
Mohit Chatterjee's drama - 'Swadeshi Naksa' was staged in 1985. As a playwright, Sengupta was influenced by works-
Dante’s Divine Comedy,
Plutarch’s lives, F.R. Cowell’s 'Cicero and the Roman Republic' and
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. He wrote several plays. Among them, the famous 'Julius Caesar's Last Seven Days', in 1983 (Julius Caesar Shesh Saath Din) was an adaption from a short story of Brecht titled "Caesar und Sein Legioner" (1947) The others are 'The Next Air Attack' (parabarti biman akrama - পরবর্তী বিমান আক্রমণ), 'Look Up' (uparer dike takan - উপরের দিকে তাকান), 'Daansagar', 'Sadhabar Ekadashi' etc. are notable. == Filmography ==