Sunit Tandon (left) in a still from the play

Anasuya Vaidya heard about Indian- American writer Richard Crasta's The Revised Kama Sutra in 2009, when her late brother who was based in Canada, read it and thought that the novel would make for a great stage adaptation. She decided to produce it for the family's New Delhi-based production house, Akshara Theatre, founded by their parents and eminent theatrewallahs Gopal Sharman and Jalabala Vaidya in 1972. "The book wasn't easily available in India. So, my brother sent it to me. My mother read it first, and excerpted extracts for a dramatised version. In fact, Richard Crasta was present for the first reading, and was thrilled by it," recollects Vaidya.