Q. Gardish Mein Taare is supposed to be inspired by the turbulent relationship between Guru Dutt and Geeta Dutt. Your thoughts.
A. It definitely is not a ‘bioplay’. Yes, Guru Dutt and Geeta Dutt are the pivots around who the play has been staged. Their lives have been extremely volatile and brimming with dramatic possibilities and hence, when we were putting the project down, we did sort of keep their pictures in front of us while working on (the characters) Devdutt Bose and Bhavana. There are similarities. They are a director-singer couple of the 1950s, and their relationship is put under a microscope. However, the relationship is dramatised, and not that of Guru Dutt and Geeta Dutt.

Sonali Kulkarni and Arif Zakaria in Saif Hyder Hasan’s play, Gardish Mein Taare