Aamir Raza Husain, Who Acted in Sonam Kapoor’s Khoobsurat, Dies at 66

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Aamir Raza Husain gave us our earliest experience of a mega theatrical manufacturing in ‘The Fifty Day War’, which till the 12 months 2000 had not been replicated on any stage in each scale or imaginative and prescient.

Published: June 4, 2023 9:25 AM IST

By IANS

Aamir Raza Husain, Who Acted in Sonam Kapoor’s Rom-Com Khoobsurat, Dies at 66

Aamir Raza Husain Dies at 66: Much sooner than India was swept off its ft by big-screen spectacles much like ‘Baahubali’, ‘RRR’ and now the upcoming ‘Adipurush’, Aamir Raza Husain was the creative powerhouse who gave us our earliest experience of a mega theatrical manufacturing in ‘The Fifty Day War’, which till the 12 months 2000 had not been replicated on any stage in each scale or imaginative and prescient. On Saturday, June 3, Husain, 66, handed on, abandoning a legacy of memorable stage productions. He is survived by his partner and creative confederate, Viraat Talwar, whom he met when she was a scholar of Lady Shri Ram College and had come to audition for a play (‘Dangerous Liaison’), and their two sons.

If ‘The Fifty Day War’ narrated the Kargil story on a scale that had not been tried by anyone with an genuine Indian script on an Indian stage (Alyque Padamsee did one factor comparable with Andrew Lloyd Weber’s ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’, nonetheless then, it was not an genuine manufacturing), ‘The Legend of Ram’, which was staged on a smaller scale in 1994, grew to turn out to be the gold customary for theatrical spectacles when it was relaunched in 2004. The manufacturing of ‘The Legend of Ram’ involved 19 exterior items unfold over three acres and a cast of 35 actors having fun with completely totally different characters drawn from the epic, and a 100-member technical crew. The closing current was staged in entrance of the then President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, on May 1, 2004.

Husain was born into an aristocratic Awadhi family on January 6, 1957. His dad and mother have been divorced — his father, whom be barely seen was an engineer with Bechtel and organize the water works of Mecca-Medina — so he was launched up by his mother and her family — throughout the days of the British Raj they presided over somewhat bit principality named Pirpur. He went to Mayo College, Ajmer, and after he achieved his schooling, he study History at St Stephen’s College, the place he acted in quite a lot of faculty performs beneath the course of such legends as Joy Michael, Barry John and Marcus Murch. It was an early start to a career devoted to English theatre and his agency, Stagedoor Productions, which grew to turn out to be acknowledged to boost unusual theatre to the realm of the spectacular since 1974.

Husain did appear in two motion pictures — in ‘Kim’ (1984), based totally on Rudyard Kipling’s novel, with Peter O’Toole having fun with the lead, and Shashanka Ghosh’s romantic comedy drama, ‘Khubsoorat’ (2014), starring Sonam Kapoor and Fawad Khan — nonetheless he was wedded to theatre. Over the years he produced quite a lot of performs staged at exterior locations — ‘Sare Jahan Se Achcha’, ‘1947 Live’ and ‘Satyamev Jayate’, which was staged alongside the backdrop of the 14th-century Hauz Khas monument, in Delhi in 1999.

Previously in 1998, Husain and his troupe, in collaboration with Delhi Tourism, organised the Chaudvin ka Chand competitors on a 2-km stretch between the Red Fort and Fatehpuri Mosque in Chandni Chowk throughout the neighbourhood now celebrated as Dilli-6. With 91 productions and larger than 1,100 performances behind him, and a Padma Shri awarded to him in 2001, Hussain spent his closing years rising the Qila subsequent to the Select CityWalk mall in South Delhi’s historic Saket neighbourhood.

Like all points bearing the Husain stamp, the Qila has emerged as a co-working space the place corporates and creative souls work beneath one roof to incubate enterprise ideas or the following large theatre manufacturing.

Unfortunately for Husain, as he lamented in a modern interview, theatre stays a curiosity, or at most interesting a second occupation in India, nonetheless fortunately, as a result of efforts of pioneers like him, it is in no way wallowing in poverty. Far from that being the case, it has grow to be the nursery of the simplest and brightest in cinema.

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