This powerpoint presentation is created by Gyanbikash.com for the students of class nine to ten from their English first part NCTB textbook for multimedia class.

1. WELCOME…

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3. CREATED BY….
This presentation is owned by
ABUL KALAM AZAD PATWARY
Assistant teacher of Lakshmipur govt girls high
school(English)
“for class 9-10”

4. Partha Pratim Majumder

6. EARLY LIFE….

7. Partha was born to Himangshu Kumar Bishwash and
Shusrika Bishwash in Kalachadpara of Pabna district
which was then part of East Pakistan. Born as Premanshu
Kumar Biswas, Partha was later adopted by Ustad Barin
Majumder and Ila Majumder. After receiving primary
education at Jubilee School, he was sent to
Chandannagar, India and was admitted in Dr. Shitol
Prasad Ghosh Ideal School. There he met with Jogesh
Dutta, an Indian mime artist and became interested in
mime. Between 1966 and 1972 he studied at the Jogesh
Dutta Mime Academy and received basic knowledge
about the art. Meanwhile, Bangladesh became
independent after a nine-month war and Partha moved
back to his country. In 1972 he was admitted to
Government Music College in Dhaka before graduating in
1976

8. CAREER……

9. Partha started his career in the 1970s through singing
and occasionally acting in some television and radio
programs. His career got a break-through in 1979.His
solo performance at Shilpakala Academy impressed the
then French Ambassador to Dhaka, Loic Moreau and the
director of Alliance Française, Gerard Grousse, who
offered him a scholarship in 1981 to obtain professional
training on mime under the French mime artist Etienne
Decroux.He was then introduced to Marcel Marceau who
trained him from 1982 to 1985. In 1986 Partha performed
a solo titled Boatman of Padma at the UNESCO
Headquarter in Paris which was the first mime act at the
World Heritage Centre. In 1994 he wrote, choreographed
and staged The Nightmare which was the first
mimodrama pertaining to child abuse to be staged in
South Asia.

10. AWARDS AND TITLES…….

11. Master of Mime – Mime Institute of India, 1987
Master of the World – Journalist Association of
Malaysia, 1987
Molière Award – Association professionnelle et
artistique du théâtre, 2009
Munier Chowdhury Award – 2009
Ekushey Padak – Government of Bangladesh, 2010
Chevalier De L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres –
Government of France, 2011

12. Partha Pratim Majumder (R) addresses the august gathering;
French Ambassador to Bangladesh Monsieur

13. "Though I'm invited by the Alliance Françoise, I'm also teaching
young people the art of mime across the country," said Partha.

14. Partha Pratim Majumder receives Bangla Academy
Fellowship from the premier.

15. “I had always heard of
Marcel Marceau as a child
as someone who would
say everything without
words but never knew
that one day I would be
working with him”, says
Majumder. Greatest mime
maestro Marcel Marceau
is thought to be the father
of French mime, with
whom Majumder worked
for over 18 hours a day
from 1982 to 1985. - See
more at:
http://thesipoflife.com/201
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16. Partha in Dhaka, 2010

17. Internationally acclaimed France-based Bangladeshi pantomime artiste
Partha Pratim Majumder is currently busy with working in veteran Hollywood
director-producer Steven Spielberg’s film….

18. THANK U……