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Theatre Activist,Arvind Gaur,Eminent Indian Theatre Director who heads the Delhi based Theatre group ASMITA is committed to innovative,meaningful,socially relevant theatre.Starting off as a journalist and working for sometime for the electronic media, he set up ASMITA and earned a reputation in theatre circle in India and abroad. Debut play of ASMITA is Bhisham Sahani's 'HANUSH" played in Feburary,1993.
Workshops & performances
Arvind Gaur has conducted many theatre workshops and performed in various Colleges, Institutions, Universities and Schools in India and abroad such as Stanford, Harvard University, Stony Brook University, Smithsonian ( Washington DC), Nehru Centre( London),Jawaharlal Nehru University,IILM, I.I.T.(Delhi),AIIMS , Mother International,Delhi Public Schoo(Noida)& Sahyadri school,Pune, J.Krishnamurti Foundation,India,DPS(R.K.Puram,Teachers workshop),School of Planning and Architecture, Gargi, Hindu, Lady Sri Ram,Kamla Nehru college,Aditi and IP college. He was also the guest faculty of Delhi University for Theatre in education program for three years. He has also conducted theatre workshops for Actors and Directors at Houston, USA and India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
Working for Social Issues
Arvind Gaur also conduct many theatre workshops for children in schools and slums as well as Street Theatre performances on different socio-political issues.He belives in socio-political relevent theatre.His plays deals against Castism, communalism,Domestic Voilence,abuses,brutality;Crimes of the state,Anti people policies,feudalism etc.He directed more than 25 street plays.He performed various Social plays in collaboration with organizations like Theatre World, British Council (Chennai), NSD, SKP and Sangeet Natak Akademi, India Habitat Centre, Paridhi,Delhi Public Library, Katha,Bahroop, Banjara Theatre group (IIT, Khargpur),IIC, Rainbow Cavaliers, M.Dot Band (Jaipur),Vivchana (Jabalpur), Prithvi Theatre Festival (platform theatre IHC, 2004), Ladies Club( IIT Bombay) and NGOs like Mobile Creches, Action-Aid, Haq, PCVC, Times Foundation, Deepalaya , Miralaya, Heinrich Boll Foundation, Asian Social Forum, Youthreach, World Social Forum etc.
Solo Shows(one Man Show)/SOLO Guru
Director Arvind Gaur has also collaborated with various Theatre artists and Groups specially in exploring a new language for Solo performances which includes Dario fo's 'Story of the Tiger', solo by Jaimini Kumar Srivastava, 'Women in Black' by Bubbles Sabharwal ,Madhavi by Rashi Bunny and " Untitled Solo" by Lushin Dubey (Theatre World). Not only have these plays received great audience response from important metropolis of India, "Women in black" was invited to perform in Dubai and "Untitled Solo" was performed in Chicago, Dallas, Washington DC, Boston, Rochester, San francisco, Ohio in USA and at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival.With Rashi Bunny , young actress trained in Theatre design at University of Alabama at Birmingham and Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA Arvind Gaur has directed three solo plays. Bhishma sahani's "Madhavi ", Manjula Padmanabhan's 'Hidden Fires' and 'Walking through the Rainbow'. Madhavi & Hidden fires has received rave reviews all over and have been invited to perform for Mahindra's Old World Theatre Festival, Vivachana National Theatre Festival Jabalpur, Muktibodh Natyaotsav raipur, 5th National Theatre Festival Balaghat, World Social forum Mumbai and National School Of Drama (N.S.D.), Satta Festival Jaipur, Theatre Club J.N.U., PCVC, and Queen's Award Project (UK) for Communal Harmony. Bhishma Sahni's MADHAVI by Rashi Bunny received special award last year for best play in experimentation with tradition at International Solo Theatre Festival, Armenia. "Madhavi" was invited at International Theatre Festival, NIZHNEVARTOVSK , Russia and frecently at International Theatre festival,France. Pinki Virani ’s "Bitter Chocolate " a new solo by Lushin Dubey directed by Arvind gaur was also performed at Harvard (USA) & at Nehru Centre, London. “ Gandhari” solo performance by Aishveryaa Nidhi was directed & performed at NIDA theatre , Sydney. Recently with British actress Ruth Sheard, he has directed two solo plays- Sarah Kane’s “4.84 Psychosis” and Dario Fo- Franca Rama’ s “A woman alone”.
Direction
In the past 15 years, he has directed 52 major plays which include Girish Karnad's Tuglaq and Rakt Kalyan, Dharamveer Bharti's Andha Yug, Swadesh deepak's Court Martial(450 shows), G P Deshpande's Antim Divas, Albert Camus' Caligula, Mahesh Dattani's Final Solutions , Tara & 30 Days in September, Eugene O'neill 's Desire Under the Elms, Dario Fo's An Accidental death of an Anarchist, Dr.Narenda Mohan's Kalandar, Bertolt Brecht's Good Woman of Setzuan and Caucasian chalk circle, Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot, John Octanasek's Romeo Juliet and the darkness, Neil Simon's The Good Doctor, Vijay tendulakr's Ghairam Kotwal, Munshi Premchand's Moteram ka Satyagrah, Ashok Lal's Ek Mamooli aadmi, Rajesh Kumar's Me Gandhi Bolto ,Vijay Mishra 's Tatt Niranjana, Doodnath Singh's Yama Gatha,Women in Black ( written & acted by Bubbles Sabharwal) ,Untitled Solo by Lushin dubey, Uday Prakash's Warren Hastings ka Saand, Pinki Virani's Bitter Chocolate,(solo by lushin Dubey),Bhishma Sahani's Madhavi & Manjula Padmanbhan' Hidden Fires ( both solo by actress Rashi Bunny),Walking Through the Rainbow ( joint production with PCVC, solo by Rashi Bunny)Doodnath Singh's Yama Gatha,Gandhari ( solo by Aishveryaa Nidhi)&Harsh Mander's Unsuni(Script by Mallika Sarabhai)
Designs
He designs lights for NAYA Theatre under the Direction of Shri Habib Tanvir.
Doc.Films
He worked as assistant Director with Eminent Theatre Personality Prasanna.He also acted in one film Dhabba directed by Mike Pandey & produced by Nafisa Ali.
Prominent Actor's who worked with Arvind Gaur
Deepak Dobrial( Filmfare award for Omkara film latest movie Shoriya)
Kangana Ranawat( Films- Gangster, Metro, Wo Lamhe etc, Fashion, Filmfare awrd 2007)
Shilpa Shukhla(Chek de India, Bindia Nayak)
Shakti Anand (TV star)
Lushin Dubey (Solo Plays-Untitled solo & Pinki Virani's Bitter Chocolate)
Bubbles Sabharwal(Prominent Writer & Acted solo in Play Arts and Paradox)
Aishverya Nidhi( Sydny based actress,acted in Gandhari Staged at NIDA)
Rashi Bunny(Solo Plays-Madhavi,Hidden Fires)
Ruth Sheard(British Actress)
Dinesh Singh
Piyush Mishra (Acted in Operation Three Star & Court Martial)
Tilotama Shome (Monsoon Wedding)
Manu Rishi Chaddha ( Acted in Mithyya film,talented Actor & Script Writer)
Akhilesh Kumar (Praveen), Acted in Boolywood Dreams
Seema azmi (Chek De India)
Jaimini Kumar Srivastava ( acted in Tughlaq & Andha Yug, AIR Senior Reporter)
Archna Joshi(Play-Desire Under The Elms ,prominent Script writer,serials)
Deepak Ochani ( Brg. Surat Singh Fame in Court Martial)
Susan Brar (Play-Yama Gatha,Final Solutions,Mr. Jinna, Court Martial)
Shyam Kumar(Director & Actor,Natsamrat Theatre Group)
Chandan Anand(Ghasiram Kotwal)
Rajesh Bagotra(Film-Parjania)
Ajay Bhalhara(Model & Actor)
Sapna Khatana (Talented Theatre Actress)
Naveen Tyagi,Kranti Pratap Singh,Wassim khan,Manu Tyagi, Sandeep Srivastava,asad Khan, Manoj Tyagi,Vijay Singh,Haider Hashmi, Gaurav Srivastava,Garima,Aparna Singh,Shalini Singh,Nandini Arora, Ashish Sharma, Vishnu Prasad,Asish Nijavan,Pragit Pandit,Prasant Singh, Himansu Roy,Arun Pandey(Vivachana,Jabalpur team),Amita Walia,Amit Rana,Mohmad Ali, Taun Chawan, Amit Kholi,Ajeet,Shekhar,Sahil Suri,Rao,RajShree,Rqahul Batra, Raghav Marwah,Monali Adewar,Kamini Prasad, Pushp Raj Rawat, Mohit Tripathi,Vipul,Shiraz Khan
and more than 500 talented actors...
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Nalina Mittra catches up with Arvind Gaur to find out more about his journey. THEATRE PASTA
He believes in marching to his own drumbeat and has been creating a buzz in theatre circle because of his novel and socially relevant theatre.After dabbling in journalism and electronic media,he set up ASMITA theatre group in 1993, and hasn't looked back since then.With plays like 'Bitter chocolate','Untitled Solo(by Lushin Dubey), Women in Black ( solo By Bubbles sabharwal),'Hidden Fires '& 'Madhavi'(both solo by Rashi Bunny),He has earned a reputation not just in India but abroad as well.
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