 The break came when Guru Pankaj Charan Das and later, Moha Mohapatra started associating themselves with the New theatre and Das got a small role, appearing only at the beginning of the dance cramas.Later, when New Theatres closed down in 1949, he moved to "Annapurna" and worked there for a few years where he had the opportunity to work alongside the renowned Odissi exponents such as Pankaj Charan Das, Kelucharan Mohapatra, Kumar Dayal Sharan and Mayadhar Raut.Annapurna also became defunct by 1953 by which time Deb Das had already mastered the dance form of Odissi.