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Star Theatre to be renamed Binodini
The Statesman
|December 31, 2024
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee today announced that Star Theatre will be renamed as Binodini Theatre.
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Wherever Nati Binodini is, she must be the happiest person. Binodini Dasi (1863-1941) felt humiliated and offended when the great theatre personalities of that era refused to name the theatre as a B-theatre. Gurmukh Rai, a Punjabi businessman had agreed to give money provided the theatre is called the B-theatre. Binodini was very happy to get this news. But later the theatre personalities called it Star Theatre and not B-theatre as they thought
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