It was in January 1979, a couple of months after the inauguration of Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai, that Katare formed his group, Yatri, and staged the satirical play Ek Tha…
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As Trishla Patel sets to open her new production of Catch 22, revisiting an interview with her last year. Trishla Patel arrives from the rehearsal of the Naseeruddin Shah-directed Aurat…
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As Rangbaaz’s popular play Bade Miyan Deewane returns for more shows, revisiting an interview with the irrepressible Imran Rasheed. When Imran Rasheed did a play called Phir Se Shaadi on the problems arising in the…
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As Divya Jagdale gets set to perform her one-woman play, revisiting an interview with her: When Divya Jagdale moved to Mumbai, it was with a secret dream to become an actress, which…
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Vijay Kenkre grew up in a home, surrounded by theatre as his parents Damu and Lalita Kenkre and aunt Sudha Karmarkar were stalwarts of Marathi theatre. “Which is why,” he says, “I decided I…
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As Ila Arun starts rehearsals on her adaptation of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, here’s revisiting an interview with her. Ila Arun’s life is a whirlwind of plays, films and music concerts. She…
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Last year, when this interview was done, Makrand Deshpande had hit a career milestone of fifty plays with a boisterous farce, Epic Gadbad. He (with his group Ansh) has subsequently…
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What they say about luck meaning being at the right place at the right time, applies to Seema Pahwa. She was at a party when Naseeruddin Shah asked her if she’d like…
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It has been over 30 years since Sushama Deshpande started performing her celebrated solo piece, Vhay, Mi Savitribai (Yes, I’m Savitribai), about the life of social reformer Savitribai Phule which has taken her to small…
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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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