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Terrence Mann, a distinguished professor in musical theatre and a well-known name on the Broadway stage, once mentioned about how movies can make an artiste famous, while television makes them rich, but it is theatre that makes them good.

Drama of uninterrupted life

Kalki Kochlein



Jasmine Singh

Terrence Mann, a distinguished professor in musical theatre and a well-known name on the Broadway stage, once mentioned about how movies can make an artiste famous, while television makes them rich, but it is theatre that makes them good. On World Theatre Day, we found umpteen actors, who feel drawn to a place that makes them good— theatre. Despite being stuck in film commitments, they cannot imagine themselves away from the stage. 

From an experienced and senior actor Naseeruddin Shah who formed formed Motley Productions, a theatre group with fellow actors, Tom Alter and Benjamin Gilani in 1977 for the  love of theatre to the NSD alumni Anupam Kher, theatre has been their  first love. In fact, theatre has gifted Bollywood many talented actors, the list is long, Om Puri, Kulbushan Kharbanda, Seema Biswas, Piyush Mishra, Yashpal Sharma, Supriya Pathak, Ratna Pathak Shah, Saurabh Shukla, Rajat Kapoor are just some lines that cannot be put in chronological order. 

What however is more interesting is the entry and fondness of many fresh and young faces from Bollywood on the stage. Actress Kalki Kochlein, actor Deepak Dobriyal, Prateik Babbar, Manav Kaul  are some of them who have found a fondness for theatre and let their creativity flow on stage as well. 

Shares actor Pavan Malhotra, "any actor who has done theatre has a different training ground, they are ready for everything, they don't have any fixed mannerism. Besides, I think theatre is a good breathing ground for an actor which is why they feel the need to touch base with it." 

Theatre person and actor Rajat Kapoor has theatre in his blood stream. "It is like the marriage of two." For Rajat, theatre is an adrenaline rush, "an unparallel creative high that is achieved only with the live audience." The question of returning to theatre doesn't arise because he wouldn't go far from it. "The whole process of being on stage because of the rehearsals and all, as an actor it challenges and sharpens your senses much more." 

Once a theatre person always a theatre person, artsites working in films or TV feel an unexplained pull towards theatre. Says popular theatre artiste Makrand Deshpande, “Films are a nostalgic experience, while theatre is pure life. Every time I do theatre, it makes me feel real because it is much in tune with that moment. It is amazing to keep performing. I think theatre is one of the best mediums to know yourself, or to touch base with yourself. As for actor Manav Kaul, he has never treated theatre as a stepping stone, “it is part of me as a performer.” And thus their creativity comes alive on stage, and they live it, in real, every moment and become good!

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