[Reader-list] A living legend of Indian Theater died today, or...

[Inder Salim]

Look who died today. They say his name is Habib Tanvir.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habib_Tanvir

Ah, I have seen him: a charming personality, his smoking pipe, his
sound, and his gentle probing set of eyes .

 It is a great feeling that i have seen this man called Habib Tanvir,
attended his few lectures.
 It is great feeling in me that i have seen his few productions
including Agra Bazar.

He was certainly a legend during his life time, and it is not
surprising that lot of press is full of obituaries.

But has he died today? He ceased when he ceased to direct his plays,
or in his mind the act was still going on ?
 In Art the death is just another event, and In life, the theater is
just another mask. Is it ?

How to celebrate Habib Tanvir,
or the concept of Theater, both folk and contemporary in the present?

what is that that which separates Life from Theater?
and how much of theater is woven in the living of each one of us?
How much artificiality is embedded in theater, and how to measure the
distance between theater and reality,
and what about the distance between the audience and the player on the stage ?

i see his death an opportunity to read different different reflections
on the subject: Habir Tanvir his theater,
 and that theater and that life which moves with times
 hand in hand.

with love
is







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