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Rajat Kapoor, an Indian filmmaker & actor collaborates with fellow actors from Bollywood to put up a theatre play that turns Shakespearean stories into a modern tale with an unconventional twist. Rajat’s clowning act of interpreting Shakespearean classics makes for an unbelievably appealing storytelling. The creative exploration of Rajat and his team is discomforting, entertaining, and addictive at the same time.
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00:00I think I'm doing Shakespeare because I don't understand Shakespeare.
00:04But of course I don't want to do Shakespeare as written.
00:07I can't even watch that kind of a play.
00:09We're going to do this play with clowns, reinventing it in a way.
00:12He has a big Charlie Chaplin playing over.
00:19We all have to live with it.
00:21He loosens my doublet and tightens my hose.
00:27He associates clowns with colourful things.
00:31I'm glad we got away from that.
00:33It is a very dark space.
00:35What he is saying is that my thoughts are leading me to a dangerous place.
00:40I have a feeling that this is a play about what is it like to be a nun.
00:49Not bad.
00:52And to prove our masculinity, we do the dumbest things.
00:55It's difficult to be a man and remain a man.
01:01He very rarely guides you.
01:03It's kind of daunting and difficult sometimes.
01:06You'll just be like, do something.
01:08And it's like what?
01:10Your play lady, we all play in every month.
01:13I was stressed out when I was trying to do Magrath.
01:18I don't know, but I couldn't figure it out.
01:20I'll never, never start with actors and turn their lines with them, okay?
01:24Who knows what we're up against, what the predators will be.
01:27But I choose to go to the Amazon.
01:29One idea I had from the clip.
01:31He he he he, only one.
01:32So if you don't have faith in your actors, then you'd better not be doing it.
01:35The first one, madam!
01:38If you do that, if everybody does that, then it wouldn't be lost.
01:41Say it.
01:51Don't let the make-up come on costumes.
02:00Don't let the make-up come on costumes.
02:04Are there better lines ever written about life?
02:07What life is?
02:09Wow.
02:14I only did what you asked me to, Hags.
02:16Ooh, how is that, Doc?
02:17Ah, look!
02:17.
02:20You're all wrong so you can niedoggle.
02:21You don't have to have to go.
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