All For Love: Manav Kaul has written and directed a play after a while, and it is always good to see a theatreperson move away to screen fame and return,…
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After attaining success in films and television, writer, director, actor and producer Umesh Shukla keeps returning to the stage. “I don’t think I will ever be able to give up…
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Kids Know Best: Shaili Sathyu and her Gillo Repertory Theatre work on theatre for children and young people. Not only does she have to find stories that would appeal to…
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After training in the US and Mumbai, Mallika Shah has been busy working in the theatre in various capacities—actor, educator, communicator– and has written and directed her first play I…
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That Girl!: It is generally believed that youth is supposed to be carefree, particularly for those belonging to financially comfortable backgrounds. But once the teens have been left behind, a…
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Glitz Blitz: Mithun Chakraborty was cast by B Subhash in Disco Dancer, because of his long legs. They had to match that dance-walk John Travolta did in Saturday Night Fever. Back in…
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Daughter of theatre veterans Vijaya and Farrokh Mehta, Anahita Uberoi has grown up living and breathing theatre. After training in New York and working on Broadway for a while, she…
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The Dream Seller: At a time when so many believe in letting it all hang out on social media, you’d think there’s no way to hide. But it is this…
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Linguistic Love: Elders fear that young people are losing touch with their language and culture as English takes precedence as a global communication link; the internet increasingly connects the world…
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Lubitsch In Ludhiana: When the first film version of To Be Or Not To Be by Ernst Lubitsch (who also co-wrote the story with Melchior Lengyel) was released in 1942,…