Arvind Gaur is an Indian theatre

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known for innovative, socially and politically relevant plays in

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. Gaur's plays are contemporary and thought-provoking, connecting intimate personal spheres of existence to larger social political issues. His work deals with

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, communalism, caste issues,

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, domestic violence,

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, politics of power,

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, social discrimination, marginalisation, and

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. Arvind is the leader of Asmita,

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's "most prolific theatre group", and is an

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trainer,

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, street theatre worker and story teller. Gaur was the recipient of a research fellowship awarded by the

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(1997–98). He was on the guest faculty of Delhi University for Theatre in education program for three years. He has conducted many theatre workshops and performed in colleges, institutions, universities and schools in India and abroad. He organizes theatre workshops for children in schools and

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as well as street theatre performances on socio-political issues. He has directed more than hundreds stage and street plays over 25 years.

Personal life

He was born on 2 February 1963 in Delhi. Arvind's father Late. Shri Shiva Nandan Sharma was a Mathematics scholar and his mother Late. Saraswati Devi was a housewife. His father died on 16 April 2009 and his mother died on 19 September 2019. He has one brother Anil Gaur and three sisters: Shashi Prabha, late Mithlesh and Dr. Anita Gaur. He is married to Dr. Sangeeta Gaur. He has twins daughters Kakoli Gaur Nagpal and Saveree Gaur. Prince Nagpal is his son-in-law. He married his daughter Kakoli Gaur.

Theatre career

After completing his schooling from Model School, Vivek Vihar in Delhi, he decided to study engineering in Electronic Communication. Later, he joined the Delhi Public Library drama group. In DPL He acted in and directed plays. Then he worked with slum kids and industrial labourers for some time and conducted workshops for them. His first street play was with Zakir Hussein College, called ''Videshi Aya''. It became very popular and he staged it around 200 schools. After this, his desire to express led him to journalism. He worked with the ''

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'' newspaper as culture columnist for about four years. Watching plays, reading about them and writing about them is how his training in theatre started. He then shifted to

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(PTI-TV). He was associated with TV serial ''Tana-Bana''. He was in charge of the research and programming there. All through his years with street theatre, print and television, Gaur had developed keen interest in direction. Finally, after devoting two years to PTI-TV, he felt the urge to switch to theatre completely. Arvind's debut play was

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's ''Hanoosh'' (February, 1993). He started his theatre journey with classics like ''

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'', ''Andha Yug'', '' Caligula'', ''

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'', etc. He performed

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's ''

'' in a small basement theatre (SRC). It was a huge success. His ''

'' was selected as "the best play of the year 1994" by

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. He achieved greater heights during a decade in theatre. He trained actors in his own style. He trained them as a complete theatre person. Arvind Gaur also collaborated with theatre artists and groups specially in exploring a new language for solo performances.

Major directions

translations by B. V. Karanth, Surekha Sikri & K.K. Nayyar *

's Hanoosh * Dharamvir Bharati's Andha Yug (The Age of Blindness) * Swadesh Deepak's Court Martial (450 shows) * Govind Deshpande's Antim Divas, translated in Hindi by Chandra kant patil *

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, translation by Sharad Chandra *

's Rakt Kalyan ( Taledanda), Hindi Translation by Ram Gopal Bajaj * Bertolt Brecht's

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translated by Kamleshwar * Mahesh Dattani's Final Solutions, translation by Shahid Anwar *

Eugene O'Neill Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Nobel Prize in Literature, literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama tech ...

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translated by

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's Operation Three Star, adaptation of

Accidental Death of an Anarchist ''Accidental Death of an Anarchist'' ( it, Morte accidentale di un anarchico) is a play by Italian playwright Dario Fo that premiered in 1970. Considered a classic of 20th-century theater, it has been performed across the world in more than for ...

by Amitabh Srivatava * Dr. Narendra Mohan's Kalandar & Mr.

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* Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot, translation Krishna Bal Dev Vaid * John Octanasek's

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and the darkness, script by Aishveryaa Nidhi *

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's The Good Doctor, Adaptation - Sunil Jasuja, Sadia & Aparna Singh *

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's Ghashiram Kotwal * Sharad Joshi's Andhon ka Hathi & Ek tha Gadha urf aladat Khan *

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's Mote ram ka Satyagrah, Adaptation by

Habib Tanvir Habib Tanvir (1 September 1923 – 8 June 2009) was one of the most popular Indian Urdu, Hindi playwrights, a theatre director, poet and actor. He was the writer of plays such as, ''Agra Bazar'' (1954) and '' Charandas Chor'' (1975). A pi ...

and Safdar Hashmi * Ashok Lal's Ek Mamooli Aadmi * Nag Bodas's Amma Tujhe salaam * Rajesh Kumar's Me

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Bolto *

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* Mahesh Dattani's Tara, translation by Neeraj Mallik * Vijay Mishra's Tatt Niranjana, translation by Rajendra Prasad Mishra * Doodnath Singh's Yama Gatha * Uday Prakash's Warren Hastings ka Saand * Dr. Harish Naval's Peeli Chht par Kaala Nissan *

's Kabira (

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) kheda Bazar Mai * Mahesh Dattani's 30 Days in September, Hindi translation by Smita Nirula *

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's Andher Nagri *

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's Unsuni, script by Mallika Sarabhai * Rajesh Kumar's Ambedkar Aur

Nominated for the best play, best direction and best ensemble in the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards-2011 *

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's Leheron Ke Raj Hans * Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan 'Ramkali', adaptation by Amitabh Srivastava, starring Mallika Sarabhai and

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(34th

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International Art Festival) *

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's Kharaashein, play based on his poetries and stories * Govind Purushottam Deshpande's Raastey. Hindi translation by

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* Mahesh Bhatt's The Last Salute, written by Rajesh Kumar.Play based on

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's Book. * Partition play based on

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's stories *

's 'Chukayenge Nahi' Can't Pay? Won't Pay!, Hindi adaptation by Amitabh Srivastava * Rajesh Kumar's play 'Trial of Errors'

Solo play direction

's ''Madhavi'' solo play with Rashi Bunny *Untitled, solo with Lushin Dubey (Theatre World) * Manjula Padmanabhan's Hidden Fires, with Rashi Bunny *Gandhari ... in search of light, solo with Aishveryaa Nidhi * Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis by Ruth Sheard *Women in Black, one-woman show written & acted by Bubbles Sabharwal * Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, one-woman show by Rashi Bunny * Pinki Virani's Bitter Chocolate solo by Lushin Dubey *Walking through the

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, with Rashi Bunny *Story of the Tiger, with Jaimini Kumar Srivastava *A Woman Alone, solo with Ruth Sheard in English. *'I Will Not Cry', solo with Lushin Dubey *Aruna's Story solo play with Lushin Dubey based on Pinki Virani's book on Nurse Aruna Shanbaug case

Street plays

Gaur directed more than 40 street theatre performances on socio-political issues. He has always raised voice against any socio-political issue that effects the common public. He directed street plays like ''Corruption'', ''Garbage'', ''Road Rage'', and ''Dastak'' which is against the issue of eve teasing. His street plays are always thought-provoking and leave a huge mark on the mindset. He and his team performs socio-political street plays all across Delhi/NCR and the country. He is regarded as a man with a message who believes that change can start from society, if we wish to start the change.

Awards

* Special Honour Award by Delhi International Film festival 2015

films/visual media

* Acted in Raanjhanaa as Guptaji directed by Aanand L. Rai * Acted in JD film directed by Shailendra Pandey with

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, Aman Verma, Vedita Pratap Singh * acted in '' Gurgaon'' * Acted in short film "Meri Jeevan ki Abhilasha" directed by Kriti Takkar which won second best fiction film in "Mise-en-Scene", the international student's film festival, 2010. * Assistant director, docu-film "In search of an ideology", director Prasanna for Doordarshan,

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. * Worked with

(PTI-TV). * Acted in tele-film Dhabba directed by Green Oscar awardee Mike Pandey, produced by

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. * Assistant director, docu-film Gokak (V. K. Gokak), director Prasanna for Sahitya Akademi, Delhi. * Research and scripting for TV serial Taana-Bana (1991–1992), produced by Press Trust of India.

Translation and Scripting

Translation

*He translated

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's Visarjan (Sacrifice), performed by the Darpana Theatre Group directed by Ujjwal Dave *Arvind Gaur translated Unsuni in Hindi; script and direction by Mallika Sarabhai

Scripts

He scripted plays like Untitled, Gandhari...in search of light, I will not Cry, Bitter Chocolate (based on Pinki Virani's book), '' Madhavi'' solo play (based on

's play) and many street plays for Asmita Theatre.

Design

Arvind Gaur designs lights for Naya Theatre group's major productions under the direction of Padma Shri

. Gaur also assisted Shri Habib Tanvir during the Prithvi Theatre Festival. He designs lights for Agra Bazar Nazeer Akbarabadi 's poetry), Charandas Chor (his masterpiece play,

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Award), Asghar Wajahat's Jis Lahore Nai Dekhya, Kamdeo ka Apna Basant Ritu ka Sapna (Habib Tanvir's adaptation of

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's A Midsummer Night's Dream), Canadian-Indian playwright Rahul Varma's Zahreeli Hawa and Gaon ke naon Sasural, mor naon Damand.

Major Actors

Major cinema and theatre actors who trained under Arvind Gaur are

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Manu Rishi Manu Rishi Chadha (born 3 January 1971) is an Indian actor, lyricist, script and dialogue writer who works in Hindi films. Rishi is trained under theatre director Arvind Gaur for six years. He won the Filmfare Best Dialogue Award, 2009 for '' O ...

, Shilpa Shukla, Rashi Bunny, Aishveryaa Nidhi,

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, Imran Zahid, Sheena Chohan,

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, Ishwak Singh and Suraj Singh of

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fame.

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attended Gaur's acting workshop to learn the nuances of street theatre for her film Raanjhanaa. Other prominent theatre actors who worked with him are Mallika Sarabhai,

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, Lushin Dubey, Bubbles Sabharwal, Ruth Sheard, Jaimini Kumar, etc.

References

External links

The good man of Delhi stage by Archana (2008-09-26) Mail-Today.

# ttps://archive.today/20130110140936/http://www.aishveryaanidhi.com/inner/theatre_activity_2005.htm Gandhari, solo-act by Aishveryaa Nidhi
"All The World’s A Platform" by Shailaja Tripathi. Expressindia ,( 2003.09.17)

The Hindu ''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It began as a weekly in 1878 and became a daily in 1889. It is one of the Indian newspapers of record and the secon ...

Dramatics Society of Lady Shri Ram College

# [https://web.archive.org/web/20071227144226/http://oneness.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1233372.cms "Mahesh Dattani's Final Solutions"Oneness Peace Festival, Hindu College, University of Delhi (2005.09.16)]
"Play of rules-Arvind Gaur's street theatre-Hatke Bachke"Nandini Nair, The Hindu (2009.01.12)

"Nobody’s Child-Bitter Chocolate" Express Features Service, The Indian Express (2004.01.08)

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