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Marching to the Beat of Your Own Drum
A Life with No Regrets
Speakers
Veteran theatre personality Dolly Thakore will be in conversation with another veteran theatre person Arundhati Nag speaking about her memoir, Regrets, None. Taking a cue from the book, the conversation hopes to be as witty and filled with candour while looking back at a life that traverses through the breadth of the country and much of the growing collective cultural consciousness of a young and emerging Indian identity.
The book brings alive another era, as will the conversation — the glitz, the glamour, the struggles – where Dolly shares stories about growing up in Delhi and an assortment of Air Force stations, getting her start in theatre in college, her time in London, involvement with social issues, casting for Gandhi and filming it across India, working in radio, television and advertising while returning always to her first love, theatre.
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Speakers
Dolly Thakore
Dolly Thakore is a veteran actor, newscaster, columnist and casting director who has worked in advertising, communications and public relations. She is also a staunch social activist, particularly for children and destitute women, and for Citizens for Peace. Her favourite assignments include being the casting director for the Oscar winning film Gandhi, the national coordinator for the Laadli Awards for Gender Sensitivity, and performing in the still running Vagina Monologues. Most recently she collaborated with one of her favourite theatre directors, Arghya Lahiri to pen her memoir, Regrets, None.
Arundhati Nag
Arundhati Nag is a film and theatre personality. She has been involved with multilingual theatre in India for over 25 years. She has been involved with Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA) and has done various productions in Gujarati, Marathi, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam and English.
She has performed several plays in Kannada: Girish Karnad’s ”Anju Mallige”, ”27 Mavalli Circle”, ”Sandhya Chayya” (Jayant Dalvi), Girish Karnad’s ”Nagamandala” and Bertolt Brecht’s ”Hulaguru Huliyavva”. She has also worked in several Kannada movies like ”Accident” (1984), ”Parameshi Prema Prasanga” (1984) and ”Nodiswamy, Navirodu Heege” (1987).
Arundhati is the force behind the conception of the theatre space dedicated to quality theatre in Bangalore: Ranga Shankara. She is a recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (2008), the Padma Shri (2010) and the National Film Awards (2010).
