Months after Girish Karnad passed on, his last play comes to Mumbai. And actordirector and friend Arjun Sajnani says, itu2019s anew, sympathetic, look at todayu2019s conflicts
HOW Crossing to Talikota landed in his lap, is a story that Arjun Sajnani has repeated often. But, it begs to be retold, at least for the Mumbai reader.
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u201c It was a great piece of luck for me. I run a restaurant called Sunnyu2019s and Girish and his wife [ Saraswathy Ganapathy] were my neighbours.
He admits to being bowled over by the second act. u201c But the first was so immense in scope that I couldnu2019t get around it and took around four months [ to get a grip on]. Then, Shama Zaidi [ scriptwriter, costume designer and art director], who is known to Girish and me because we did Tughlaq togetheru2014 said, u2018 donu2019t be an a**. u00ad ust tell Girish you are doing the play and do itu2019.u201d The play is based on the legendary battle fought in f . u00a4 . between the Vijayanagara Empire, led by Aliya Rama Raya, and an alliance of the Deccan sultanates centres GITANJALI CHANDRASEKHARAN
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