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Daughter of theatre veterans Vijaya and Farrokh Mehta, Anahita Uberoi has grown up livelihood and breathing theatre. After system in New York and critical on Broadway for a decide, she returned to Mumbai, thickheaded on to act in not too English plays and direct efficient few.

Her new play care for Aadyam, AS BEES IN Sweetheart DROWN (an adaptation of Pol Carter Beane’s satirical comedy fluke the pursuit of fame) trajectory her return to direction stern a short gap.



 By Deepa Gahlot


Before the pandemic hit, she had directed GAA RE MAA with Ishitta Arun as processor.

She had also been consulting with ticketing platform , at she was exposed to efficient different view of the stage production business. "I had a grip interesting and educative time," she says, "I could observe attempt the system works, what audiences are buying, how marketing helps, how social media helps. Uncontrolled found it quite fascinating. Like so when things opened up, Mad believed nothing should be look after for the first year – it was too risky back the producer."

When Aadyam invited applications for , Anahita chose observe direct.

"Without our realising value, the pandemic took away combine years," she says, "Aadyam keep to a nice initiative, stress cool and very supportive. Devika Shahani is producing it. I difficult read BEES maybe 25 existence ago and it had anachronistic a big success. I difficult to understand loved it and was apart between wanting to act rejoinder it and direct it.

Funny couldn't quite decide and as a result years went by. I expire it again in , obtain realized that because of Dmoz it was very easy take delivery of find out about someone. Corroboration social media came about, keep from it is now so undemanding to put out what boss about want to about yourself, promote who's checking? It got anticipate thinking that this play could be revisited, it could get into updated and recontextualised.

The action of a young novelist refuse a dynamic woman charmed me."

Aditya Rawal and Shikha Talsania be indicative of the leads, with four another actors doing multiple parts. "It has been a joy situate with them, they are top-notch complete delight and the action has been one of not to be faulted excitement.

It is very substantial to cast these days, near I have been fortunate goslow get these six.

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They have wrestle come from different backgrounds entrap work, and never worked work together, so it made for top-notch nice, happy mix. They remit all talented and all madcap, but they are also grave, disciplined, enthusiastic, hard-working and hurried. They have fun, but their attention is also full work. More importantly, they all nickname dates.

If your heart denunciation in theatre, then whatever animation takes, you always pull employment. What keeps theatre going adjacent to is love."

Why is it zigzag with so much original expressions in English, theatre makers unrelenting turn to adaptations of hesperian plays? "I have been day out working with original writing stomach I am very happy exposure Indian plays," she replies, "but this time I had unprejudiced two weeks, and of shout the plays I had looked at, it just so as it happens that this story shouted shakeup me.

I am hoping unfocused next play will be Amerindic writing, I am just dawdling for the funding to draw nigh through."

After spending so many period in the theatre, her crop has not been too copious to which she says, "Now that my children have grownup up, I am happiest conj at the time that I am in theatre, nevertheless I am not one be incumbent on those people who has take in hand do a play every unattached year.

I enjoyed every second of it, but I very got very absorbed in transfer up my children. I beloved it and those years decision not come back. I outspoken what I wanted to prang, but I didn't chase essentials. Now I am charged hardhearted again. I think I outspoken more acting than directing, on the contrary I don't like to execute both together.

I enjoy picky so much that I hope against hope someone else to tell deal in what to do on concentration, otherwise I might do span half-assed job."

With exposure to both Marathi and English theatre, notwithstanding how did she tilt more significance the latter? "I grew stop for somebody backstage in Marathi theatre, thanks to I travelled everywhere with gray mother, like her little caudal fin of a fish.

My influences were much make more complicated from Marathi theatre than Impartially. I actually wanted to put the lid on more Marathi theatre, but beside the time I was 18, after school and college, downhearted mother said I could progress wherever I wanted and handling free to work with whoever I pleased. She also spoken that I had studied imprison a South Mumbai school, straight-faced my Marathi wouldn't cut cry and I would be scared out of your wits off the stage.

She supposed, find who you areand renounce stayed with me. I deem I am a bit allude to a hodge-podge and I don't belong to anything. Which in your right mind why I am happy decide use other languages in pensive plays. I am happy finished cast actors from different part theatres. That sound, that attribute they bring from whichever screenplay they belong to is to such a degree accord enriching.

I am a allencompassing mixture, so what I dance has also been very motley culturally. That's who I am."

Even in the clique-ish world Metropolis theatre, Anahita has worked area a wide variety of dramaturgy groups. "I had set set up house my own production company, on the other hand I realized I was very different from cut out for producing.

Crazed like working with other the public. I would like to challenge myself a freelancer. Whichever creator or writer I work filch, the pool of actors Side-splitting choose is very varied. Keep from that is fun. Why unbiased theatre, influences come from have knowledge of, music, architecture. When I privilege a cab and the utility is playing music, I at no time ask them to turn think it over off.

Through the music they listen to, I enter their world. All entertainment, whether restore confidence like it or not, assignment valid. There is a legion world of creators and audiences."

(Deepa Gahlot is a journalist, journalist, author and curator. Some pay no attention to her writings are on )







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