Aamir Raza Husain, Known For Creating Stage Spectacles, Passes Away At 66

A lot earlier than India was swept off its ft by big-screen spectacles resembling ‘Baahubali’, ‘RRR’ and now the upcoming ‘Adipurush’, Aamir Raza Husain was the artistic powerhouse who gave us our earliest expertise of a mega theatrical manufacturing in ‘The Fifty Day Warfare’, which until the yr 2000 had not been replicated on any stage in both scale or imaginative and prescient.

On Saturday, June 3, Husain, 66, handed on, leaving a legacy of memorable stage productions.

Aamir Raza Husain is survived by his spouse and artistic accomplice, Viraat Talwar, whom he met when she was a scholar of Girl Shri Ram School and had come to audition for a play (‘Harmful Liaison’), and their two sons.

If ‘The Fifty Day Warfare’ narrated the Kargil story on a scale that had not been tried by anybody with an unique Indian script on an Indian stage (Alyque Padamsee did one thing comparable with Andrew Lloyd Weber’s ‘Jesus Christ Celebrity’, however then, it was not an unique manufacturing), ‘The Legend of Ram’, which was staged on a smaller scale in 1994, turned the gold commonplace for theatrical spectacles when it was relaunched in 2004.

The manufacturing of ‘The Legend of Ram’ concerned 19 outside units unfold over three acres and a forged of 35 actors taking part in totally different characters drawn from the epic, and a 100-member technical crew. The final present was staged earlier than the then President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, on Could 1, 2004.

Aamir Raza Husain was born into an aristocratic Awadhi household on January 6, 1957. His mother and father have been divorced — his father, whom he barely noticed, was an engineer with Bechtel and arrange the waterworks of Mecca-Medina. So he was introduced up by his mom and her household within the days of the British Raj; they presided over slightly principality named Pirpur.

He went to Mayo School, Ajmer, and after he accomplished his education, he learn Historical past at St Stephen’s School, the place he acted in a number of school performs underneath the route of such legends as Pleasure Michael, Barry John and Marcus Murch. It was an early begin to a profession dedicated to English theatre and his firm, Stagedoor Productions, which turned recognized for lifting strange theatre to the realm of the spectacular since 1974.

Husain did seem in two movies — in ‘Kim’ (1984), based mostly on Rudyard Kipling’s novel, with Peter O’Toole taking part in the lead, and Shashanka Ghosh’s romantic comedy-drama, ‘Khubsoorat‘ (2014), starring Sonam Kapoor and Fawad Khan — however he was wedded to the theatre.

Through the years, he produced a number of performs staged at outside places — ‘Sare Jahan Se Achcha’, ‘1947 Dwell’ and ‘Satyamev Jayate’, which was staged alongside the backdrop of the 14th-century Hauz Khas monument in Delhi in 1999.

Beforehand in 1998, Husain and his troupe, in collaboration with Delhi Tourism, organised the Chaudvin ka Chand competition on a 2-km stretch between the Purple Fort and Fatehpuri Mosque in Chandni Chowk within the neighbourhood now celebrated as Dilli-6.

With 91 productions and greater than 1,100 performances behind him, and a Padma Shri awarded to him in 2001, Hussain spent his final years creating the Qila subsequent to the Choose CityWalk mall in South Delhi’s historic Saket neighbourhood.

Like all issues bearing the Husain stamp, the Qila has emerged as a co-working house the place corporates and artistic souls work underneath one roof to incubate enterprise concepts or the following massive theatre manufacturing.

Sadly for Husain, as he lamented in a current interview, theatre stays a pastime, or at finest, a second occupation in India, however fortuitously, because of the efforts of pioneers like him, it’s certainly not wallowing in poverty. Removed from that being the case, it has change into the nursery of the perfect and brightest in cinema.

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