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This majestic set will go up in flames tonight
Updated On: 03 October, 2009 07:45 AM IST | | Tinaz Nooshian
Tansen will spark a raging fire with his singing, and a captive Shahjehan will lament from behind a trellised window on a 400 feet-long stage that the audience will walk alongside. 181 years of Mughal history unravel in Amir Raza Husain's unique open-air theatrical presentation, where you can do everything except sit
Tansen will spark a raging fire with his singing, and a captive Shahjehan will lament from behind a trellised window on a 400 feet-long stage that the audience will walk alongside. 181 years of Mughal history unravel in Amir Raza Husain's unique open-air theatrical presentation, where you can do everything except sit
He looks up at the overhead sun, one eye squeezed into a tight slit, the other shaded by his cupped palm, before he wipes the sweat off his head with a red gamccha that hangs carelessly around his neck, and sighs, "I'm roasting."
An assistant comes by swinging a plump polythene bag that holds three Vada Pavs. That's his breakfast, which in a chaotic swirl of activity has got pushed closer to lunchtime.
He digs in, peals open the slit pav stained with hara dhaniya chutney, and disappointed, utters, "Isme sukhi chatni kahan hai? Woh tez laal wali."
That's just one among a string of setbacks to have come Amir Raza Husain's way this morning.
But when you are used to putting up theatrical productions on the scale he does (Chaudvin ka Chand saw 43 simultaneous performances across a 1.5 km long road in Delhi's Chandni Chowk, before an audience of 6 lakh), hiccups hardly matter.
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