By Antony Sher
Year of the fats Knight is mythical level actor Sir Antony Sher's account—splendidly supplemented via his personal work and sketches—of studying, rehearsing, and acting one among Shakespeare's so much iconic characters for a 2014 Royal Shakespeare corporation construction. This follow-up to Sher's 1985 vintage Year of the King is a good learn, wealthy in humor and pleasure, that still stands as a party of the craft of personality performing.
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The lighting too was quite adequate—even spectacular, given the times and limited resources. 6 Habib Tanvir I recall seeing a scene where a cave was depicted by a clever placement of rows of flats which were then lit in a way that made it seem really dark and cavernous. The ‘street’ was usually placed right in front, down stage, rows of houses painted on either side with a road in their midst. Often a comic scene would be played out on the street. These usually had nothing to do with the main plot, but they were quite marvellous.
Tanvir, STQ, p. 5. Ibid. Ibid. From the English translation of Habib Tanvir’s Urdu autobiography, chapter titled ‘The Teachers of Laurie School’, translated by Mahmood Farooqui (Forthcoming). 29. Ibid. 30. Ibid. chapter two The Bombay Years Habib with his troupe in 1982. Photo courtesy Avinash Pasricha. Habib Tanvir’s fascination with movies inevitably led him to the capital of cinema, Bombay. 1 Bombay beckoned but he did not have the wherewithal to get there on his own; so he resorted to a stratagem: I saw an advertisement for the navy: they required officers.
Look, look, they’re kissing now). And many times he’d make up any kind of story he wanted. It was so hilarious. Many people went more for the sake of Babulal than for the film. And then later on came the talkies and then we’d already started making such beautiful films, perhaps better than we do now. By and large they were wonderful. New Theatres, Bombay Talkies and Prabhat Cinetone, Saagar, even so-called stunt films—they were great fun: Nadia in Hunterwali and so on. But Saagar did very good socials with Motilal—Motilal was a great actor.
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