Friends, film maker Elroy Pinto and film editor Swabha Pal , found this in a documentary film on Kumar Shahani and Mani Kaul, they are watching and sent this to me… Thank you…!! So blessed to have been the lead actress for the cinemas of Kumar Shahani and Mani Kaul (Five films!!. ‘Var Var Vari’, ‘Khayal Gatha’ and ‘Kasba’ for Kumar Shahani ‘Siddheshwari’ and ‘Ahmaq’ for Mani Kaul) KASBA is currently playing on #MUBI VAR VAR VARI on #YouTube SIDDHESHWARI’ on #You Tube #kumarshahani #mani kaul #indiancinema #worldcinema .
And it’s a wrap for the Mandira Mathur character for #CriminalJusticeSeason4 Thank you team of CJ 4…! My fraternity and family for 35 years now—the film, tv and now Ott parivaar!!!! PS: Dear friends it is not my birthday…this is the traditional way of celebrating the actor’s last day of shooting on a particular project…today was my last day of shooting for CJ 4. My birthday is Nov 2nd. Thanks for the love 💕 anyway! 💗
ASHOK SAGAR BHAGAT!!!! His light design for my solo play, LAL DED, endures and enthralls even twenty years later. .. Many years ago he passed on the baton to the wonderful RAGHAV PRAKASH MISHRA who is an invaluable part of the Lal Ded performance journey now… Here we are …at the wedding of Raghav’s lovely daughter…. (26th Feb 2024) #lalded #indiantheatre #mysticpoet
In Paris, as an apprentice to Bresson….. What a profound and beautiful personality even at that age…! Kumar told me years ago how Bresson wanted to speak to him over the phone before granting him a first meeting ‘only if he liked my voice over the phone would he consider meeting me….you know Breason did that…he would decide if he liked someone by first listening to their voice over the phone…’
Hello friend!…thanks for the throwback pic
Happy Holi!! SAVE LADAKH Nature made all the colors, all the colour combinations…and these are always so perfect!!! May we embrace deeply all that Nature has to offer …this Holi, Dear God, colour us with the awareness and gratitude of Your Creations—-water, nature, snow, mountains, rivers and LADAKH, just as YOU created it…. The prayer this Holi….Save Nature, Save Ladakh, Save Sonam Wangchuk… Save the human species…
Testing …before the show… Had to complete the set up yesterday in less than four hours …..somthing we never imagined possible…now made possible… #RaghavPrakashMishra —you are not just the coolest guy ever, you also make the impossible possible! And with no loss of energy to the creative outcome during the performance. Hats off to Raghav and YES, to the really marvelous team of office bearers, workers and technicians of the Chitnavis centre, Nagpur !!! Thank you all! #laldedthebplay # Lalded #mysticpoet #chitnaviscentre #raghavprakashmishra #snaawardee
O Nat Devtaa, We theatre practitioners, the followers of the Fifth Veda, bow to you! आगिकम भुवनम यस्य, वाचिकम सर्व वांग मयम … A blessed theatre day to all….practitioners and audiences….
Listen to the radio Vividh Bharti tomorrow 4 pm for the broadcast…part 3 of my interview…
MAHESH ELKUNCHWAR …I was thrilled to receive a message from this great playwright whose plays were part of our syllabus at #NSD that he was coming to my performance of #LAL DED…and “would you like to have lunch” ? Could we do dinner instead, after the play, Mahesh? I asked.. Fabulous and sparkling at 84 years, Mahesh has a disciplined routine in Nagpur…he broke some rules that evening to party after the show till midnight… Dear Mahesh! Blessed and happy to have that evening…Happy Theatre Day(s)..today and everyday… A special thanks for the evening to my dear college–till today friend Renu Soni and her wonderful other half, Ananth Soni…. #Rmagidoor
The complete picture of the evening post the theatre performance at Nagpur. Still savouring the time together….in pic my dear friend Renu and Anahat and their lovely friends, team Lal Ded, and…Mahesh Elkunchwar !! #laldedsolotheatre #mysticpoet #Rmagidoor #nagpur
Had to complete the set up yesterday in less than four hours …..somthing we never imagined possible…now made possible… #RaghavPrakashMishra —you are not just the coolest guy ever, you also make the impossible possible! And with no loss of energy to the creative outcome during the performance. Hats off to Raghav and YES, to the really marvelous team of office bearers, workers and technicians of the Chitnavis centre, Nagpur !!! Thank you all! #laldedtheplay #Lalded #mysticpoet #chitnaviscentre #raghavprakashmishra #snaawardee #laldedthebplay # Lalded #mysticpoet #chitnaviscentre #raghavprakashmishra #snaawardee
In the studios …working on the sound design for ‘Mani Kaul and That Thing Called The Actor’ intermittently for 18 months…. Paddy was so happy to be back in an analogous studio….
So deeply moved and honoured by the iconic Sai Paranjpe’s desire to cast me in her play ‘Jaswanti’ in Marathi, some years ago ( and later in a Hindi feature film…it was in the year 2008) (I needed a month to master the language but we didn’t have that kind of time…how I regret my not having mastered Marathi from the minute I landed in Mumba in 1987i…I missed out on some incredible work with the most fabulous directors—Sai Paranjpye and later a Marathi film for Sumitra Bhave) Later Sai cast me in the lead for a wonderful Hindi film which however the big or maybe no longer so big Hindi film producer endlessly delayed only to never let it happen eventually. Dear Beloved Sai Paranjpe ji….my profound respect and love for you and to you…just being mentioned by you is an affirmation for me, of the highest value…. Thank you dear Abhay, for sharing this with me! #abhaykulkarni #marathitheatre #indiantheatre #saiparanjpye
THEATRE…this fifth Veda… In January this Year Pandit Uday Bhawalkar’s ‘Swarkul’ (Pune) was inaugurated. A haven and a heaven on this earth. Beautifully designed architecturally, and resonating with Uday Ji’s devotion to Dhrupad, the inaugural saw the presence of the greatest musicians of today . (In pic here with Pandit Uday Bhawalkar, is his Guru brother Ustad Mohi Bahauddin Dagar, the wonderful Dhrupad maestro of the Rudra Veena) As theatre practitioners, the ‘Vaachik’ and the world of swar— (the second pillar of the actors’ training in the Natyashastra)— is for all actors to master, or atleast to have a deep knowledge of…. Dhrupad training actually allows the actor to understand the concept of timing in speech too….
Dear dear Paddy….no no no….we were to have a beer or the Magic Moment gin soon…you cannot just leave, just like that….. A.M Padmanabhan….the last of the geniuses… Sound recordist and sound designer….his knowledge and experience beyond belief!! Paddy I thought somehow that you were indestructible…and what they heck….we were to get back to the studios for my next film… Smile down at me from up there, shower me with your blessings ….your sense of humour and your brilliance…. Tell me you haven’t gone ..
Thanks Anup ji! Saving this for myself here…to keep reminding myself, all the time… All the time…
Dive into the ethereal world of Lal Ded, the revered mystic poet of 14th-century Kashmir, through the spellbinding performance by Indian television actress @mitavasisht . Join us at the Chitnavis Centre for an evening filled with her timeless wisdom and profound insights. 🗓: Date: 17th March 2024 ⏰: Time: 06:30pm onwards 📍: Venue: Banyan Hall, Chitnavis centre, Civil lines, Nagpur. 📲: 91 9423033340
Team Lal Ded. With Raghav Mishra, the man for all moments. In Sunshine yellow… #laldedtheplay #indiantheatre #mysticpoet #raghavprakashmishra
Paddy….eighteen months ago….working on my film ‘Mani Kaul and That Thing Called The Actor’ Paddy was so happy to be back in the studio…scolded me afterwards saying ‘ I am so happy that it makes me very angry with you….’ Pause… I, bemused, looked at him ‘it will be very hard for me to sit at home after this..’ ‘We’ll begin work.on a new project right away Paddy’ , I said..’.I don’t have the funds or anything in place but let’s start with making the sound scape for the script first..’ He chuckled then chortled and began to recount another one of his fascinating experiences with recording sound, on location or otherwise…these marvellous tellings invariably began with…’Once we were shooting in….’
