Mother Dairy Commercial - Maa Jaisa Koi Nahi

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Directorial Debut

An Interview with Neena Kulkarni on her Directorial Debut Play Mahasagar.

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Multiple Characters

Critical Acclaim...and more!

Mahatma vs Gandhi holds US audience in raptures
Jyotirmoy Datta
NEW YORK 6 MAY

IF THE tumultuous ovation by the sell-out audience here is any indication, the projected 10-city US tour of the play Mahatma vs Gandhi, directed by Feroz Khan seems set for a resounding success.

With Naseeruddin Shah playing the role of the Mahatma, Neena Kulkarni as Kasturba and Kay Kay as their first-born son Hiralal it was described by critics attending it as an almost flawless performance of international standards. [...] At curtain call, Khan not only had all his actors on the stage but also the behind-the-scene technicians, saying that it was entirely a team effort with everyone contributing equally.

Naseeruddin Shah made the Mahatma come alive on the stage, recapturing the slight stoop of the Bapu’s walk, his crosslegged crouch before his spinning wheel, even the very tone and timbre of his larger-than-life subject's voice.

Kulkarni’s Kasturba was a woman of epic depth, torn between a mother's love for her first-born and a wife's unquestioning faith in the tenets of her husband. Kay Kay's all-too-human Hiralal wrings our hearts, sometimes eclipsing in his frailty Naseeruddin's stern Mahatma The present play in English [...] began as a novel in Gujarati, Prakashno Padchhayo by Dinkar Joshi. It was adopted by Ajit Dalvi and reworked into its present shape with Khan contributing to the script.

The debut of the play in India did not go unnoticed and its US tour opened with a paean of praise in the Arts & Ideas section of The New York Times by the paper's chief of India bureau John Bums.

"A widely hailed stage production, Mahatma vs Gandhi has broken the taboos and Americans have an opportunity to join in the debate it has unleashed about one of history's most famous figures,” Burns wrote.

“The play looks at Gandhi through the prism of his tortured relationship with the eldest of his four sons, Hiralal, who died in a Bombay hospital barely five months after Gandhi's assassination, racked by tuberculosis and probably — the version accepted by the play — also by syphilis.

These two events provide the starting point for a production that many Indian critics have described as one of the best acted, most provocative English-language plays to emerge from lndia in years.” So strong was the demand for tickets that the Namashkar Foundation, which is hosting the tour on America's East Coast, announced at the end of the show that it was planning an encore performance in the New York area on May 30. IANS

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Rann Pics

Clicks from my latest film RANN.. this is my most recent look..

Selective work...

PLAYS

Hindi Theatre

Sambhog se sanyas tak – (writer,director- Pandit Satyadev Dubey)- 1975

Are mayavi sarovar- (writer- Dr. Shankar Shesh)- 1975

Aadhe adhure- mohan rakesh- 1975

Aah- Vijay Tendulkar-1976

Doctor aap bhi- Ajit dalvi-1999

Abe Bevakoof:- Pandit Satyadev Dubey- 1976

English Theatre

Educating Rita-Willy Russell- 1994-95

It’s all yours janaab:- Bharat Dabolkar

Mahatma Verses Gandhi- Ajit Dalvi (translation:- Mukta Rajadyaksh)-1998

Wedding Album-Girish Karnad-2008

Marathi Theatre

Selective plays

Guntata Hruday He- S.N. Navre( 400 shows)- 1971

Hamidabaichi kothi-Vijaya Mehta (250 shows)-1977

Mahasagar- Vijaya Mehta(600 shows) (Natyadarpan- Best supporting actress)-1978

Vat Vat Savitri- Ratnakar Matkari- 1985 (Best comedian- Natyadarpan)

Akasmaat- Suresh Chikhle(300 shows) (Best actress- Natyadarpan, Natyanirmata Sangh, Natyaparishad)

Dhyanimani:- Chandrakant Kulkarni, Prasant Dalvi(500 shows)1994-95 (best actress- Natyadarpan, Natyaparishad, Pune Gaurav, State award, Nirmata Sangh)

Aai cha Ghar unhacha:- Gajendra Ahire(300 shows) 1993-94 (Best Actress award- Pune Gaurav, Nirmata Sangh

Prempatr:- Abhiram Bhadkamkar (40 shows) 1998- (Best Actress- Pune Gaurav)

Naagmandal:- Girish Karnad, Dilip Kulkarni( 60 shows)1992-93

Dehabhaan - Abhiram Bhadkamkar (200 shows) 2002-03 (Best actress- Mata Sanman)

Marathi Films Selective

Aai (1992) (Best Actress- Apsara Award.

Haach Sunbaicha Bhau(1992)

Sawat Maajhi Ladki (1993) ( Best Actress- Maharashtra State Award and ABCM)

Saatchya aat gharat-2004

Uttarayan (2004)

Kavadse:- (2003)

Sarivar sari(2005)( State award for Best supporting Actor)

Shevri- Actor/Producer(2006) Best Film (As Producer) at The Pune International Film Festival and The 54^th National Awards 2006.

Nital (2006)

Amhi asu ladake (2006)

Gandhha- 2008

Gho Mala Asla Hava- 2008

TV SHOWS

Hindi	Marathi
Ados Pados	Nayak
Heena	Adhuri Ek kahani
Aatish	Raja shiv Chatrapati
Kayamat	Ek zunz wadalashi
Ek Packet Umeed	Salsood
Ladies Special	Haddapaar
Saarthi	Chal Navachi Vachal Vasti
Jhoota Sach
Janam
Star best sellers
Mere apne
Waris
Ankaheen
Chutki Bajake
Bhais Barabar
Hamidabai ki kothi(telefilm)
Punha-(telefilm)

I quote...

'Acting is about good characterization'

'The idea is to show more of character with a lesser touch of your own personality'

'When I came to serials my expectations were nil, because I was aware that my age fitted into the mother's slot'