After doing theatre through school and college, when Atul Satya Koushik applied to the National School of Drama he was rejected and told he could not do theatre (due to a slight physical disability).…
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Squirrel On The Go: Shaili Sathyu and her Gillo Team is getting ready to get on to their Natak Bus and travelling to parts of Maharashtra—the group’s second such tour,…
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As a child, Kamlesh Mota auditioned for a school play, and expressed the intention of taking up theatre. His mother took him to the Bhangwadi Theatre in south Mumbai (a venue, now defunct,…
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Mumbai has an overactive theatre scene, but most groups suffer from a severe shortage of funding, which then results in working around available—and often inadequate– resources. Which is why, when Aadyam was…
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Akriti Singh named her four-year-old theatre group Storia Senza Storia, which means story-less stories. “There is a writer called Scarlett Thomas, who is my favourite. There is a book by her called Our…
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At a coffee shop in the heart of the showbiz district of Mumbai, a young man dives at Geetanjali Kulkarni’s feet, murmuring how big a fan he is of her…
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Danish Husain is an actor, poet, theatre director, and instrumental in reviving Dastangoi, the lost art of Urdu storytelling. After the unfortunate estrangement with his performing partner, Mahmood Farooqi, he expanded it into an…
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It has been twenty years since Jaimini Pathak established his own theatre group—Working Title—and produced about 18 plays, directed and acted several of them, wrote one, along with acting in…