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An epistolary drama
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Heart warming and poignant, ‘Love Letters’ – possibly the longest running English play in India – traces the journey of two soul mates
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Working chemistry Rajit Kapoor and Shernaz Patel
Love Letters Rage Productions (Mumbai) Ravindra Bharati, October 10, 7.30 pm
At a time when email rules, letters of love take on great meaning –the touch of a button has replaced the human touch,” says director Rahul da Cunha as he prepares for yet another staging of A.R. Gurney’s internationally acclaimed stage hit Love Letters.
A heart-warming, poignant play about two people, Andy Ladd III and Melissa Gardner, who write letters to each other over a period of 50 years, the play is being staged in Hyderabad for the first time. Andy played by Rajit Kapur is a serious, down-to-earth attorney. Melissa played by Shernaz Patel is a lively, free-spirited artist. But these two opposites have a definite attraction. They are childhood friends who share a lifetime of experiences through a voluminous series of letters and notes written from the age of six to sixty. Poignant, romantic and frequently funny, their correspondence follows a bittersweet path of boarding schools, marriage, children, divorce and missed opportunities. It’s the life journey of two soul mates - enacted through words both written and unsaid - who share the greatest gift of all: the gift of love.
Melissa is played Shernaz Patel, who started off as a TV actor with Khandaan and Nakaab. Having a carved niche as film-maker after a successful movie debut in Mahesh Bhatt directed Janam, her stage credits include The diary of Anne Frank, Nuts, Mr. Behram, Veronica’s Room, Letters to My Daughter, I ought to be in Pictures and Six degrees of separation and of course Love Letters.
Rajit Kapoor brings the intensity which he showed hints of in the detective serial Byomkesh Bakshi to the play Love Letters where he plays Andy. Moving away from TV serials where he became an iconic actor starring in Yugantar, Junoon and Duniya he is now a name to be reckoned with extensive film, television and stage work. His success with films spans both art films like Shyam Benegal’s Suraj Ka Satwa Ghoda and Sardari Begam as well as commercial hits like Gulam where he essayed the role of an intensely troubled brother to Aamir Khan. He played Gandhi in Benegal’s The Making of the Mahatma for which he won the ‘Best Actor’ national award. No novice to stage, his credits include Larins Sahib, Love Letters, Gas Light, and Six Degrees of Separation.
The play opened in 1993 and has completed over 250 performances since then. It is perhaps the longest running English play in India.
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