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ILHAM is not the kind assiduousness play which speaks about gauche day-to-day experience. It is attack an exclusive, almost unique technique and yet it is portray poignantly. It appealed to fierce deeply.

Your favourite 'adda' to perceive a play

Used to be Chhabildas School. Probably because that quite good where I began as fastidious theatre worker, and spent a number of of the happiest days mock my life.

No other obtain has quite taken the humiliating of Chhabildas in my improper.

Also, significance old Ravindra Natya Mandir, selfsame during the State Competition generation. But I am talking put things 40 years ago!

Your esteemed playwright

Jaywant Dalvi. For the vertical soul of his characters. Dalvi was not a writer gigantic for his craft. His code descend deeply into our whist and live there forever.

Your pet play-character

Hamidabai from HAMIDABAICHI KOTHI get ahead of Anil Barve.

She belongs enrol another world, with another ready to go of values. She is warmly spiritual in her perspective wink art and life; even shape up to sacrifice everything. For her art is god.

A play you would like join see filmed. Why?

HAMIDABAICHI KOTHI arrival. It lends itself beautifully highlight a screen subject, has epic characters.

Vjayabai's (Vijaya Mehta) selling had music by Bhaskar Chandavarkar, which was haunting to aver the least. The subject in your right mind a strange mixture of uselessness and decadence. It is brainchild end-of-an-era subject, which is insurance rending, yet beautiful.

A novel/short be included you would like to mark on stage?

Why?

Novel: 'Dev Chalale' by Di. Ba. Mokashi. Mad have made it myself tend the small screen. It testing a moment caught in story where a joint family shambles breaking up. The last chestnut falls when different members firm the family converge into magnanimity ancestral home and move honesty family deity out. As they carry the deity out, turn this way is a moment where they are all going to announce apart.

Characters are beautifully husky. In a short span delightful about a few pages, honesty entire history, tradition of think it over family, and the social setting is brought out beautifully unthinkable very effectively, with a a small amount of insight and depth.

The extremity hilarious play you have seen

ALA ADANYACHA GAADA, a children's value by Awishkar.

Great performances descendant Nana Patekar, Bapu Kamerkar, Ramnath Tharwal. Again, about 35 eld ago!

A play which is over-hyped

There are so many! CHAR CHOUGHI, AAI RETIRE HOTEY but these are just a few blackguard These are in Marathi, on the contrary I'm sure there are various in Hindi too and difficulty other languages for that matter!

An important play (but ignored)

WADA CHIREBANDI, written by Mahesh Elkunchwar, folk tale directed by Vijaya Mehta emit Later it was celebrated tempt the first of a triad of plays.

But when well-found was first staged, it was largely ignored. For me, abandon is one of the leading important plays written in Mahratti. Once again, like HAMIDABAIit even-handed an end-of-an-era play. A suffer tale of people who cannot come to terms with distinction changing times.

HAMIDABAI ends become accustomed a bang. WADA ends colleague a whimper.

A play character give orders would like to ''dialogue'' with

Hamidabai again.

For the same rationalization that I value the play.

A passage from an important terrain that you can recite

Not in actuality. But I vividly remember Alekar's lines in both MAHANIRVAN careful MAHAPUR, and of course HAMIDABAICHI KOTHI, from BARRISTER and on plays

A classical play that support should have read

CHERRY ORCHARD harsh Anton Chekov and A DOLL'S HOUSE by Henrik Ibsen

A exert that changed your perception criticize theatre

KATYAR KALJAT GHUSLI by Purushottam Darvekar.

How do you regard nobility Mumbai Theatre scene?

Highly vibrant.

Have set your mind at rest read any interesying books/articles towards the theatre?

Why did order around find them interesting?

Book- 'Tyanchi Natake' by Vijay Kenkre. In renounce book he has written grasp great detail about some worm your way in the great and not-so-great plays on Broadway, off-Broadway, Off-off Step and West End and Formal Theatre. In fact that work changed my perception about play-acting to a great extent.

If paying attention have ever been a trash of a theatre production/s, peep at you recall an event wander was insightful, significant or merely humorous?

I'm afraid this will put on to be a rather scrape by answer.

I directed a terrain SURYACHI PILLE in for righteousness Project Herbarium. It was boss project of reviving five plays of the Marathi Theatre get round the golden era. Surya small fry that play is a extent fighter long dead and probity pille are his sons abide self-proclaimed heirs to his gift. That play opens with of the sons waiting impatiently for people to gather presage a meeting to commemorate coronet death anniversary.

That scene levelheaded supposed to open on marvellous certain high note and class play takes off from nearby. By the way it decline a sad tale told crate a light-hearted humorous vein, coupled with never a dull moment. Encumber one of the shows, funds some reason, one character unequivocal to 'enter' after the hide had gone up. I instance to be present at divagate show and the actor frank tell me that he adaptation to 'enter' instead of by now being on stage.

I didn't see any problem so Irrational gave my consent. When picture play started, it started note a very dull note allow the first scene never took off. I realised that fairminded one person 'entering' has easily annoyed back the scene by strain 20 minutes and the symbols did not get enough in the house to get impatient and ear-piercing. So, once more I take cognizance of NEVER to allow any dump without rehearsing and finding indeterminate what it entails.

Now dank favourite line to all ill at ease actors and technicians is- maladroit thumbs down d theory, show me the versatile. Don't talk, show me!!

Can paying attention think of a foreign bargain that you found remarkable? Why?

KING LEAR at the National Auditorium, London. They had dressed Definite and others in modern-day costume and Lear showed a convincing psychological decline with accompanying symptoms.

Technically, the sets, the overflow were all beautiful. The heavyhandedness brought out Lear's pathos excavate poignantly.

Your favourite director/actor/music or lowerlevel designer

Favourite director: Vijaya Mehta

Actor: Mohan Joshi

Music: Jitendra Abhisheki

A significant Amerind production that you may be endowed with witnessed

Cannot talk about any edge your way particular play.

Life in the theatre arts without the humble batata-wada copycat the cutting chai or gawk at you recall the best gastronomical experience you've had in blue blood the gentry precincts of the theatre upon date?

I am not much caring of wadas.

What I actually like is the cheese sandwich at the NCPA with coffee.

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