Suresh Dutta Suresh Dutta is an Indian puppet artist, theatre personality and the founder of Calcutta Puppet Theatre, a Kolkata-based theatre group dedicated to puppetry. Born in 1934, Faridpur,in undivided Bengal of the British India. He took a diploma in dance, drama and music,and received training in fine arts from the Albert League Temple Art School and College. Dutta also trained himself under Phani Bhushan, a Jatra exponent, and Kathakali under Balakrishna Menon. He also learnt Bharatanatyam and Manipuri,this stood in him in good stead in his parala puppeteer at the Children’s Little Theatre,Calcutta in1954 and produce several shows with marionettes, of which Mithuya in 1955 and Dustu Indur i.e. ‘Naughty Mouse’ in 1956 became immensely popular. Then he moved to Russia, under a scholarship in 1962, to train in puppetry master, Sergei Obraztsov. After returning he continuedwith the Children’s Little Theatre till1971. In 1973, he founded his own puppet theatre group, Calcutta
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