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`Beyond Therapy' was a play Nadir Khan just had to direct
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NADIR KHAN "prefers acting or producing to direction as it takes a lot out of me. I enjoy direction but I need to take a break between assignments."
And a break is what twenty-five year old Nadir has taken between his directorial debut Michael Christopher's Shadow Box in 2002 and his present assignment of Beyond Therapy.
"Beyond Therapy is something I always wanted to do. I acted in it and was always thinking about it and when this opportunity came up I thought why not?"
There is no particular genre Nadir favours as he explains, "I am interested in the text. I do not do genre specific work - Shadow Box was dark and bleak while Beyond Therapy is totally different. I favour texts that allow me to experiment. A writer like Naomi Wallace writes brilliantly but she has such specific stage directions that I cannot do anything to improve on it. Even if I try something different, it will always be there at the back of my mind that this is how she wanted to do the play."
The playwright Nadir admires the most is "David Mammet. He has written for films as well. I have acted in Mammet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago which is a brilliant play."
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While Nadir gives so much importance to writing, he does not see himself becoming a writer in the near future. "I do not have the patience to go through all those drafts and re-drafts!"
The future is chockablock for Nadir with his theatre group, The Industrial Theatre Company, putting up Jean Jenet's The Maids. Dead against mainstream Hindi cinema, Nadir "Hindi films and television is just not my cup of tea." "I am, however, open to crossover cinema," he says.
The eternal question of theatre and filthy lucre is sorted out with "voiceovers and radio jockeying. I used to do a request show, which was fun till they switched to Hindi. I tried it for a couple of months - you know the RJ would talk in English while the songs would be in Hindi but it just did not jell so I quit. I guess I would be back once the station switches back to English." And till then there is of course theatre and time to catch Sholay, which believe it or faint Nadir has never seen!
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