To tell you, what I think of acting, here’s a story. During my graduation, I joined dramatic society of my College and got a chance to enact the lead role in a play. As this was my first encounter with acting and I didn’t have any idea about it, soon got kicked out of the role and ended up just being a part of chorus. Moral of the story, I wasn’t a born actor, didn’t seem to have an instinct or natural talent for acting. It just that I worked hard on it and acquired the required skill to act. That’s why I believe “actors are not born, they are made.”
When somebody asks me, what is being successful? I always say…
“If you are doing what you love to do, then you are already successful”.
THEATRE
Overall,13 yrs of experience, more then 40 major plays.
Worked with following eminent theatre directors…
Satyedev Dubey, Mohan Aghashe, Naseeruddin Shah, Barry John, Ratan Thiyam, Anuradha Kapoor, N. K. Sharma, Baba Karanth, Ram Gopal Bajaj, Abhilash Pillai, Ranjeet Kapoor, Swanand Kirkire, Rehan Engineer, Lillete Dubey, Itzick Weingerten (Israel), Stephan Shushke (German), Rob Clare (UK), Peter James (UK)…
Some of my most important theatre productions as an actor…
August Osage County (Tracy Letts),
Medea-Material (Heiner Mueller),
Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare),
Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus),
Midsummer Nights Dream (Shakespeare),
Death and the Maiden (Ariel Dorfman),
An Inspector Calls (J. B. Priestley),
Judith (Howard Barker),
When Chickens Came Home to Roost! (Laurence Holder),
Time and the Conways (J. B. Priestley),
The Cherry Orchad (Anton Chekhov),
Night of January 16th (Ayn Rand),
Khamosh… Adalat Jari Hai (Vijay Tendulkar)
CINEMA
KLPD | Sanjay Kandhuri |
Halla Bol | Rajkumar Santoshi |
Aparahan | Prakash Jha |
The Plop | Miriam Chandy for 48 Hr film project |
Saheb Biwi Aur Pahalwan | Miriam Chandy for 48 Hr film project |
Chal Chalien | Ujjaw Singh |
Parzania | Rahul Dholkia |
TELEVISION
Crime Petrol | Sony TV |
Adaalat | Sony TV |
Kismat | Yashraj Television, Sony |
Powder | Yashraj Television, Sony |
Rishta.Com | Yashraj Television, Sony |
Siddhant | Star One |
Bali – Telefilm | Star One (Genesis Production) |
Hum Sab Barati | Zee TV |
Jasoos 005 | Sab TV |
Haqeeqat | Sahara |
Dhaba Juction | Sab TV |
Jasoos Vijay | BBC, DD1 |