Cinematic brilliance

On Gandhi Jayanti this year, veteran director Manoj Shah, known for his contemporary Gujarati plays, adapted Abhishek Majumdar's Salt into a short film Meetha No Satyagrah. So, Shah knows the power of transforming theatre into cinema and that, he feels, is also evident in the Al Pacino-starrer Glengarry Glen Ross, adapted from a play by David Mamet. "It's brilliantly shot. Whether you read the script or the play, you end up with a feel of both theatre and cinema," Shah says.