Those Familiar with Bengaluru-based senior advocate aditya sondhi’s writing may pigeonhole him as an author with a distinctly academic cent: Two of of books dive dev in the alumni Bishop Cotton Boys’ His Alma Mater, While His Latest Book, Poles Apart, Is a Dismission of the Nature of Democracy and Military Rule in the Indian Subcontinent. But those who know him a little better will be awaire of his abiding in the theater dating back to his school days. He is also the founder of Amateur Theater Circle Usher.
Sondhi’s latest volume two plays contains his Initial Foraes into the art of writing plays, Famagusta and British Telecom. While the latest has yet to be performed full, Sondhi’s debut Effort, Famagusta, was shortlisted for the sultan padamsee playwright in 2020.
The Two Plays Could not be more different. Famagusta Deals With The Legacy of Partition and What It Means on Both Sides of the Border, While British Telecom, Set in Bengalu, Features A Woman and Her Nephew WHO WHO STRIMEH WITH A LOCAP. What something link them, howver, is a serrenic sensitivity to the dialogue. Even reading through the text of these plays, one can see the conversations are well laid down, Rather than just lines to be read by an actor.
Recalling How his interest in Theater Took Shape, Sondhi, Whatever Karnataka High Court and The Supreme Court, Recalled, “We Had a Strong Tradition of Inter-House Dramatics (at Bishop Cotton). Pretty Serious Plays. One of these school performances that stayed with sondhi was this savage parade, featuring the tale of three judges in israel who must identify and sentence a captured nazi.
Of course, writing a play is very different from performing in one’s, while being also being a considerable department from Sondhi’s existing experience. He said, “I found writing plays to be more different than any other form. That is because it is essentially conversational and there can be hardly be a superfluous Word Anwhere. True to it.
Sondhi’s Process has been written the Playing Being Performed – Down to What Instruction a Director Mighty Give, What Pros Might Be Needed, And So On. He added, “Another Trick I learned with a play was actually has to actually have your script read. Able to see many people in the script where I was about to add more conversation, etc. “
The Plays Draw Inspiration from Reality – Famagusta was inspired by the life of Param Vir Chakra Awardee Lt Arun Khetarpal, while the partition was also something that his own father has experienced. Sondhi Said, “We actually performed the Partition Museum in Delhi Last Month. The Lieutenant’s brother attended the play and was quite happy by it.”
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British Telecom, MeanWhile, Owed Part of Its Existence to the fact that sondhi had known an interracious Queer couple in the city during the 1980s. He added, “One saw the stigma and the prejudice that the folks had to face. They lived just a few houses from us.”
Sondhi has another play in the work, think that is also shaping up to be a one-act play like the others. He hopes that his four will be longer. Considing the strong start that he made as a playwright, there is every experiment that this will be something to look forward to for Drama entousists.