Zee Theatre to showcase actress PreetaMathur's 'Hai MeraDil'

Hai Mera Dil, the long-running adaptation of the Broadway play Send Me No Flowers by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore, will now be screened at Zee Theatre. This play has been performed for over 43 years and gave Mumbai’s Prithvi Theatre its first housefull show way back in 1978. It became synonymous with film and stage stalwart Dinesh Thakur, who acted in the play and also directed it till he passed away in 2012. His wife and creative partner Preeta Mathur Thakur believes Hai Mera Dil is the perfect tribute to the man who lived and breathed theatre.

Since 2012, Preeta has not only managed Ank Theatre Group, which Thakur established in 1976, but has also been performing Hai Mera Dil regularly. She is thrilled that the teleplay version produced by Nine Rasa will now reach even those who have not watched the version on stage. Preeta began acting in Hai Mera Dil in 1993 and recalls, “Dinesh ji told me I didn’t have to act and just had to behave as my character, Usha, would in a situation. This is the exact advice I now give to other actors when I direct them.”