Category: Theater

When Parsi actors get together to stage a comedy, you can be sure of a laugh riot. Harish Chandra Bijo, staged at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival on day one on Saturday, sent audiences back home with large grins on their faces. The comedy of errors about amateur Parsi actors trying to put together a… Continue reading A comedy of errors finds favour with audience: Dinyar Tirandaz

I boarded a train that made just four stops in 55 years. Author: Burjor Patel Source: DNA India Let me start today with my first destination: Jam-e-Jamshed, a Gujarati newspaper catering largely to the Parsi community. A family-owned enterprise established in 1832 and being run by the fourth generation. Two brothers ran the show. The… Continue reading The theatre actor was also good at selling advertisement space

When I decided to call my call column Life Begins At 80, my wife asked: "Do you want to admit to the world you are past 80?" I understand that would be a sin for a woman! By Burjor Patel | DNA India When I decided to call my call column Life Begins At  80,… Continue reading To live on for the moments that take one's breath away

In this special series, we re-visit great Hindi film classics. Today, we look back at Prithviraj Kapoor and Sohrab Modi’s 1941 film Sikander. By Sukanya Verma | Rediff Sikander ne Porous se ki thi ladayi, jo ki thi ladayi, toh main kya karoon?’ shrugged Mohan Choti in a catchy song from Anpadh. If only he… Continue reading How Sohrab Modi won over Prithviraj Kapoor

The city’s Gujarati speakers of an older vintage will fondly recall the plays of Adi Marzban, the playwright and director who was synonymous with Parsi nataks from the 1940s to the 1980s. by Pronoti Datta | Mumbai Boss The nataks were usually comedies packed with double entendres, slapstick and nifty wordplay in Gujarati and performed… Continue reading Revisit The Parsi Natak

Actor Burjor Patel, Adi Marzban’s collaborator on modern Gujarati theatre, gets back to Mumbai, and acting after 20 years Ayaz Memon | TNN Burjor Patel resurfaced in viewer consciousness when an endearing telecom ad featuring a young boy and an avuncular old man who talked through his eyes and the body language of an acting… Continue reading Burjor Patel: Back in Service at 82

Laughter In The House: A Tribute To Adi Marzban is back on popular demand after it premiered two months ago as a homage to the veteran Parsi director Journalist Meher Marfatia still recalls how, as a child, she was taken along by her aunts to watch the doyen of Parsi theatre, Adi Marzban’s plays. The… Continue reading Reliving the Parsiana andaaz