Mukhosh was formed as a group of scientists wanting to explore the limits of their creativity, not necessarily confined to the limits of the lab or the computer. As scientists, we tend to analyse and dissect everything – and our journey in theatre has been aligned with that approach. We have always defined our own limits and have always trodden new space. Starting out in Bengaluru way back in 2005
, we dared to organize the first ever Bangla theatre festival on our own in 2008 in the city where Bangla is not even close to being the native language. From our very modest beginnings at IISc Bengaluru, we spread our roots all over the city and became a forum of expression via theatre for professionals in various disciplines of life. We moved to Kalyani, a city close to Kolkata, in 2009, and started our journey in Bangla theatre in its native place from 2014. Our play ‘Brishti, finally…’ was the first ever online-crowd funded theatre production in the history of Bangla theatre, which will hopefully ensure our presence in the annals of the latter. We have launched four productions since 2014 including ‘Brishti, finally…’, the others being Mallabhumi – a dark fairy tale, and ‘The Uncertainty of Principles’ – a play on the travails of a scientist in the midst of an irrational society – which also had a Bengali version: Tawrke Bohu Dur. Our plays have been marked with constant experimentation, starting from ‘Brishti, finally…’ – which attempted to incorporate the proximity of theatre and intimacy of cinema in order to analyse the mind of a creative person desperately in search of his creativity – to ‘Mallabhumi’ – which was replete with dance and rampant physicality in its attempt to project a bizarre, fairy-tale atmosphere. Our experimentation continues heavily in 2034 with its very non-linear content, which could even be described as dystopic.