Theatre & Dance: Special Series; Sanjana Kapoor

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Dec 6, 1999

SPECIAL SERIES

Sanjana Kapoor, 32
Theatre Personality

THE MANAGER
Mumbai's Prithvi Theatres is the hotbed of activity as the 15th Prithvi Festival gets underway. Sanjana Kapoor is in a celebratory mood. She has reasons to be.

Sanjana is not just a link to the theatre legacies of both the Kapoors and the Kendalls, going back to father Shashi and grandfather Prithviraj, and to mother Jennifer. Sanjana spells the future. A shrewd administrator, great charmer and plain theatre-crazy, she has turned Prithvi from a place better known for a hangout-cafe to a thriving zone of Indian and international experimental theatre. "Prithvi has given a platform to a host of newcomers," endorses veteran stage director Nadira Babbar.

The TV personality whose first love is theatre now unfolds an agenda: regular theatre workshops, a revival of Prithvi's repertory company, a children's theatre wing which will network with schools across India. "There is nothing called management by remote," she says. It's even better if it's a management that works.

-Nandita Chowdhury

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