Dec 6, 1999

Rajat Kapoor, 38
Director

MR CROSSOVER
For Rajat Kapoor theatre was always a cinch. "It's very addictive," he says. So, the founder member of Chingari, one of Delhi's leading theatre groups, has stuck with it since college. He has directed, translated into Hindi Waiting for Godot, The Taming of the Shrew and Jean Genet's The Maids and Deathwatch -- and often kept films, his first love, in second place. He has won several national awards for his films since one for best non-feature film in 1995 with his debut, Tarana. His first feature, Private Detective, is showing in Mumbai.

But it's theatre that Kapoor -- he's also a successful TV model -- keeps coming back to. Based in Mumbai he is currently touring the country with the play C for Clown, a highly dramatised look at a day in the life of a troupe of clowns being performed in English and gibberish. There's also this script for a horror film in which he hopes to cast Amitabh Bachchan. "Mr Bachchan is reading it now, I'm keeping my fingers crossed." If it doesn't work out, there's always a play.

-Anna M.M. Vetticad

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