Janak Toprani Playwright, Director, Producer [English Theatre ] Which is the last good play you saw and why? Not seen a play in India in a long time for fear of getting tempted to do a play and also because quality of theatre has fallen I think. Saw PHANTOM OF THE OPERA in New York last. Was obviously a rerun. A major disappointment. Your favourite adda to see a play... Used to be Prithvi, but last few plays that I saw were below the mark. Your favourite playwright... Neil Simon in English, Uttam Gada in Gujarati / Hindi. Vijay Tendulkar in Marathi Your favourite play-character... Willy from SUNSHINE BOYS A novel/short story you would like to see on stage? Why? Some of Kanhaiyalal Munshi s works. The most hilarious play you have seen... SAMBHOG SE SANYAS TAK.. I remember only that.. but have read quite a few How do you regard the Mumbai theatre scene? Thriving but not many venues. Venues like Prithvi that were meant to promote young talent have deviated from their original purpose...they pamper established players who ideally should have shifted to other venues making way for youngsters..other venues like the NCPA have become too commercial forgetting that they are there to promote art. Both lack clear long term vision. Have you read any interesting books/articles concerning the theatre? Why did you find them interesting? Many, from books on acting to directing that are interesting because they help you learn the craft. If you have ever been a part of a theatre production/s, can you recall an event that was insightful, significant or simply humorous? Produced and directed more than 25 productions.. have encountered many such incidents. Too many to list here. Can you think of a foreign production that you found remarkable? Why? Most of the Broadway musicals...and PHANTOM...when I saw it on the West End. Mainly for the technical expertise. Your favourite director/actor/music or set designer... Director - Late Kanti Madia and Sailesh Dave,.set designer MS Sathyu and late Vijay Kapadia Life in the theatre without the humble batata-wada or the cutting chai... or can you recall the best gastronomic experience you've had in the precincts of the theatre to date? Batata Wada and chai.   read / post your comments More Speaks Abhishek Pattnaik Adhaar Khurana Ajitesh Gupta Akarsh Khurana Akriti Singh Akshat Nigam Aman Gupta Amit Behl Amol Parashar Anand Tiwari Ankit Soni Anubha Fatehpuria Arghya Lahiri Arnesh Ghose Arun Kakade Aseem Hattangady Ashutosh Potdar Ashwin Gidwani Asif Ali Beg Atul Kumar Atul Satya Koushik Azaad Bhakti Rathod Bhushan Korgaonkar Bijon Mondal Boman Irani Brajesh Hirjeev Chaitanya Tamhane Charudatta Bhagwat Chitransh Pawar Cyrus Dastoor Damini Kanwal Danesh Irani Darrshan Jariwalla Debobrata Banerjee Deesh Mariwala Devika Shahani Punjabi Dharmendra Gohil Dhruv Lohumi Dilnaz Irani Dinesh Thakur Dinyar Tirandas Divya Jagdale Divya Palat Dolly Thakore Gaurav Singh Gurleen Judge Harsh Desai Hilda David Himanshu Singh Howard Rosemeyer Hridaynath Jadhav Hussaini Dawawala Huzan Wadia Imran Rasheed Inaayat Ali Sami Jagdish Rajpurohit Jaimini Pathak Jaimini Pathak1 Jameel Khan Janak Toprani Jasvinder Singh Jim Sarbh Joy Fernandes Joy Sengupta Jyoti Vyas Kajal Gadhia Kamlesh Mota Kamlesh Oza Karthik T M Ketan Karande Khanjan Thumber Kulvinder Bhakshish Kumud Mishra Kyla D'Souza Lillete Dubey Lubna Salim Maanvi Gagroo Mahabano Mody Kotwal Manali Kale Manaswini Lata Ravindra Mandar Chandwadkar Maneesh Verma Manish Gandhi Mansi Multani MD Pallavi Meenal Patel Meher Acharia Dar Meherzad Patel Mikhail Sen Mohit Sharma Mujeeb Khan Nageen Tanvir Nagesh Bhosale Namit Das Naseeruddin Shah Naushil Mehta Naushil Mehta (Part II) Nazneen Madan Neelam Gheewala Neha Singh Nipun Dharmadhikari Om Katare Omkar Bhatkar Padma Damodaran Parag Dubey Pathy Aiyar Pradnya Shastri Pramod Pathak Pranay Gupta & Sohini Gupta Pratik Gandhi Pratik Kothari Pratima Kulkarni Preeta Mathur Pritesh Sodha Priyanshu Painyuli Quasar Thakore Padamsee Rahul Antani Rahul Valmiki Raj Yadav Rajeev Ravindranathan Rajendra Gupta Rajit Kapoor. Rajit Kapur Rajiv Krishnan. Rakesh Sharma Ramu Ramanathan Rasika Agashe Rohini Bhatia Singh Rohit Tiwari Rupak Batish Sahil Jaffrey Saif Hyder Hasan Sananda Mukhopadhyaya Sandesh Kulkarni Sanjaay Khapare Sanket Angane Sapan Saran Satchit Puranik Satyajit Sharma Saurabh Shukla Sayeed Alam Scherazade Kaikobad Sejal Pondaa Shadab Kamal Shailesh Gelani Shamath Majumdar Sharmila Velaskar Kadne Shernaz Patel Shiv Subrahmanyam Shiv Tandan Shivam Sharma Shivani Tanksale Shyam Bhimsaria Shyam Kishore Siddharth Kumar Siddharth Menon Suchitra Pillai Sudeep Modak Suhaas Ahuja Sukant Goel Sumit Kaul Sunil Prem Vyas Sunil Shanbag Suruchi Aulakh Sushama Deshpande Tasneem Fatehi Tavish Tom Alter Trishla Patel Tushar Pandey Ulhas Shirke Utkarsh Mazumdar Vaibhav Kapatia Vandana Sajnani Veena Bakshi Vikram Kapadia Vikram Kapadia (II) Vikrant Dhote Vipul Mahagaonkar Vivek Tandon Zubin Driver    Discussion Board

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