“Most actors start off fairly awkward on stage. It takes most actors a long time to figure out how to know what to do,” says Ratna Pathak Shah. The play brings to the stage, stories set in middle-class Muslim homes — a milieu that both writer Ismat Chughtai, and the play’s director, Naseeruddin Shah, are closely connected to. And if they are helped along [the way] by teachers or good directors, so much the better. Similarly you piece together a character, use your own personal experiences, what you’ve seen other actors do.

Source: Hindustan Times March 13, 2018 12:00 UTC