Shabana Azmi,
actor
"Alyque is easily one of the pioneers of English theatre in India. I remember Girish Karnad being delighted with Alyque's handling of Tughlaq, which became a breakthrough point for English theatre. He brought alive large musicals and intimate pieces like Broken Images. He remained a force to reckon with both in the ad world and Indian theatre.

It was wonderful that Alyque had worked with my mother Shaukat Kaifi as the lead in three plays more than 50 years ago and that he was working with me so many years later with the same zest, passion and impatience in Broken Images. I had told him he mustn't shout at me as he was wont to do and he stuck to his word. It was a collaborative exercise and even though there were some differences in the way we saw certain moments, I have to admit that he had a tremendous pulse on the way the audience would react. I really enjoyed working with him and learned a lot about stagecraft from him. Nothing escaped his attention.