Nagesh Bhosale Actor [Marathi, Hindi & English Theatre Theatre ] Which is the last best play you saw and why? Girish Joshi�sMAKDACHA HATI CHAMPAGNE and FINAL DRAFT. I liked the plays for their scripts as well as performances. Your favourite adda to see a play� Before it was Shivaji Mandir. Now it is Dinanath. I have memories associated with Shivaji Mandir while Dinanath is a convenient venue for me to reach. Your favourite playwright� Earlier I used to like the work of Vasant Kanetkar and Mahesh Elkunchwar. These days it is Ramu Ramanathan. Your favourite play-character� There was an actor called Yashwant Dutt who used to act in this Vasant Kanetkar play called VADAR MANSARAYTE. Mr. Dutt has played many roles. He has also acted in the famous Marathi play called NATASAMRAT but I really liked his character in Kanetkar�s play. He was also very good with it. A play you would like to see filmed. Why? COTTON 56, POLYESTER 84. A novel/short story you would like to see on stage? Why? There is a Punjabi folktale about a dacoit who comes to a village. He is thirsty and stops to have some water. In the village he sees a pretty, young girl and falls in love with her. He is a big dacoit, so much so that nobody dare refuse him. But this young girl is not aware of that. She is completely innocent and treats the man as she would treat any other. And he comes to know that she is in love with another boy. The boy is aware of the dacoit�s feelings for the girl and is afraid and he challenges the girl to stand up to him. It may appear as any other love story but I found it to be very nicely written. The most hilarious play you have seen� Machindra Kambli�s VASTRAHARAN. The play is in Malvani, which is a dialect of Marathi. And the dialect itself is very funny when you hear it. A play character you would like to �dialogue� with� There are so many�In Mahesh Elkunchwar�s WADA CHIREBANDI, there is a character called Sudhir who plays Aai�s second son and Bhau�s younger brother. I have seen Kishore Kadam playing the character. I was quite taken by the character�s dilemma of leaving his family and yet being so much a part of it. A passage from an important play that you can recite� I played the sarpanch (the village headman) in a play written by Baban Ghatkar. This character has a very negative frame of mind and he can�t think well about anything or anybody, including his family. Then there is this meeting in which he has to speak everything nice. I still remember that speech and would enjoy doing it again. A classical play that you should have read� Perhaps WAITING FOR GODOT. But I don�t feel that I should have read it. I have seen it. A play that changed your perception about the theatre� AATA MANUSHYA JAGNE. How do you regard the Mumbai theatre scene? Actually not that bad as some people make it out to be. There are people like Sunil Shanbag, Manav Kaul, Ramu Ramanathan. They are doing good theatre and their kind of theatre does have a space. And nowadays there are so many festivals. The META awards invited plays from different states. So the opportunities are there to do experimental and innovative work. If you have ever been a part of a theatre production/s, can you recall an event that was insightful, significant or simply humorous? There was a play in the loknatya (people�s theatre) tradition in which I used to act as a sutradhar (narrator) and open the play with a gan (song devoted to Lord Ganesha). Bali Deshmukh was the harmonium player in that production and he used to intersperse my gan with a vocal sound that has a musical quality to it. Once we were performing in a village where everybody was sitting on the floor. There was only one person with a big moustache who was sitting on a chair. I started singing and Bali Deshmukh came in as usual. Now this man when he heard Bali Deshmukh asked him to keep quiet by not saying it but by simply emitting a loud �Ssh�� Bali Deshmukh ignored him. But when it was his turn again and he made the vocal, rhythmic sound as he was supposed to, this man removed his chappal. This gesture made Bali Deshmukh keep quiet. So the next time around when his turn came, he just didn�t say anything. I kept looking at him to remind him of his cue but nothing came! During the interval, I went to Bali Deshmukh and told him: Kya paagal hai? Bola kyun nahin? (Are you mad? Why didn�t you speak?) and he told me what happened during the show. But that was not the end. This man actually came in the interval and asked for Bali Deshmukh. He said that he just didn�t like the interference of the vocal sound with the song. The sound was spoiling the effect of the song for him! Moreover he had warned the villagers not to laugh heartily (which they were actually supposed to do) because ours was a party from Bombay. That was unfair because loknatya is such a lively form and we missed the audience�s participation. The poor villagers cowered under the man�s power. Can you think of a foreign production that you found remarkable? Why? SHAKESPEARE�S VILLIANS by Steven Berkoff. A significant Indian production that you may have witnessed� In Marathi theatre there have been many significant productions. I recall Vijaya Mehta�s production of WADA CHIREBANDI. Recently I saw Ashok Hande�s MARATHI BANA recently and was quite impressed with it. Life in the theatre without the humble batata-wada or the cutting chai or if you please brownies that are snuggling chocolate bits� or can you recall the best gastronomic experience you�ve had in the precincts of the theatre to date? My best experiences are with batata-wada and chai. And the best place I have had them are at Chabildas, when it was in existence. Chabildas ka natak karte the or saamne vada pav khaate the (We used to act at Chabildas and eat the vada-pav served in the shop, opposite to the school). 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