On a day when most people have a holiday and are gearing up to bid adieu to Lord Ganpati, actor-director Manav Kaul and his group of actors are getting ready for another day of rehearsal of their forthcoming play Colour Blind. It is the 18th and on 25th of this month, the play that takes a look at Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s relationship with his muse Victoria Ocampo, opens in Kolkata followed by a show in Shantiniketan on the 27th. No wonder then, that Kaul barely manages to speak to us over the phone to fix up a meeting. We need not have worried about not knowning the flat number when we reach the eighth floor of the building in Lokhandwala, Andheri, where Kaul has called us for a behind-the-curtains look at the play -- we can hear the loud voices of the actors rehearsing as soon as the lift doors open. All we have to do is follow the voices.

Manav Kaul explains a scene to Satyajeet Sharma and Kalki Koechlin