razia sultan episode 71 with english subtitles

Recently, he’s been busy with an exhibition of old photographs of Lucknow, from the time of the 1857 Mutiny. Though Alkazi retired from the National School of Drama (NSD) 30 years ago, he has remained active in the artistic sphere – collecting and documenting old photographs and paintings, conceptualising and curating exhibitions.

“He was a great teacher, very charismatic.” “When Alkazi described a performance, we could imagine it unfolding before our eyes,” theatre director Bansi Kaul, one of his students in the 1970s, told me on the phone later. There’s a natural storytelling talent on view when he talks about his life, beginning with his boyhood in Bombay and Pune he has an impressive memory for specifics and his descriptions are vivid. His steady, clipped voice could easily belong to a man 25 years younger and he rarely pauses for breath. He still comes to his office, the Art Heritage Gallery in the Triveni Kala Sangam basement, at 11 AM each day, after spending an hour at the Alkazi Foundation in Greater Kailash-II. Though he walks with a barely noticeable stoop, there’s little else to suggest that Alkazi is 82 years old. Initially in Bombay and later in Delhi, he developed quite a reputation as a director who brought a new sense of realism and purpose to Indian drama, and as a teacher who nurtured some of the leading talents of the era – including Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Rohini Hattangady and Manohar Singh. This isn’t exactly my beat but I had some idea of Alkazi’s standing as a flagbearer of the theatrical tradition from the 1950s through the 1970s. A few weeks ago I met Ebrahim Alkazi, the former theatre director, for a profile for Harmonymagazine.

Razia sultan episode 71 with english subtitles