Her colleague of several decades, actor and theatre group Ekjute's manager Hanif Patni blames the constant spotlight as the reason why Nadira Babbar prefers to keep a grave face in public.
Actor Hanif Patni was stumped by Nadira Babbar's request to perform complicated yoga postures on stage.
He agrees that it is one of those intimate moments within the group when she breaks into a smile and asks others to join in. Patni says, "She is quite different when she is not in public. She heads the theatre group, so often she prefers to keep a serious face."
But directing comedies is what brings Nadira into herelement, vouches Hanif, talking about their play Yamraj Ji Kuch Kariye that marks Nadira's return to Comedy of Errors' after more than a decade. Patni says, "It's been 12 years since we last did Dario Fo's Trumpet And Raspberries." The rehearsals of Yamraj provided the entire team with ample opportunities to crack up on the stage.
For one, Patni confesses he has a rather stiff body and was stumped when Nadira asked him to fulfill the role of a hermit who is a scholar of yoga sciences. He laughs as he admits, "I have absolutely no knowledge about yoga. Finally I had to invent some random yoga postures and pass them off on stage as authentic." With a pause he adds, "Luckily, the audience wasn't discerning and I didn't get caught. I was often left quite numb in my legs after particular scenes."
By Sujata Chakrabarti
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