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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

Marriage Story: What happens when the communication between a couple reduces to non-stop bickering? Atul Satya Koushik’s new play, MY WIFE’S 8TH VACHAN, attempts to answer this question in a comic…

The Complete Human: For its sixth season, Aadyam has looked outside Mumbai and invited Chandigarh-based Neelam Man Singh Chowdhry to direct a Hindi version of Hayavadana, Girish Karnad’s play, produced…

The Poet Speaks: Those were heady times, writers, poets, artists, joining the stream of progressive thought and expression—makes one wonder, in fact, how the work of these stalwarts could have…

Marry-Go-Round: As a playwright, Makrand Deshpande is at his best when he is not bound by the compulsion to please an audience and can work with abstract concepts. He has…