2000 India Today Tata Tetley Assam Tea

2000 India Today Tata Tetley Assam Tea

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Note	STRONGER than your boss's nasty memo… Bust the stress with 100% ASSAM STRENGTH At last! What you've always wanted - strong tea in a bag! That's because Tata Tetley uses only 100% Assam Tea. Strong and satisfying as no other tea can be. In a special international quality tea bag which ensures that all the strength comes through. Go for it! NEW Tata Tetley ASSAM TEA TEA BAGS 100 TEA BAGS The first 'POWER-PACKED' Tea Bag! Kargil comes to life on a mega scale in Delhi with stage directors Aamir Raza Husain and Virat Husain by Anna M.M. VETTICAD It's that time of year in Delhi when the nip in the air has turned to biting cold, and glass panes fog up with human breath. That time of night in the city when people disappear under their quilts, and indoors is the place they'd rather be. Not Aamir Raza Husain. With a week to go for his next mega presentation. Welcomtheatre's The 50 Day War (starting January 20), the capital's maverick theatre direc-tor is at work in his open-air arena ("8-10 acres," he guessti-mates; "much more," says wife and co-director Virat Husain). Walled in by hillocks, this is the setting for his drama on the Kargil conflict. And as always there's so much to be done. BATTLEFIELD DRAMA and Virat (above); involved in the s play." Not for the first that this director farces, thrillers, ands projects as The Legend producing a play on s scale. If Legend with its multiple s ence perform on a The 50 Day War goes ther. With an exp about Rs 70 lack cast of 140 actors army personnel), sets on rails, a life-sized ploding, two MiGs who cables, action on the hillocks - both nature up - and a revolver that will take an audie plus from one scene And to think it alls a visit to the hospital. thea f war Virat - daughter of a retired jor general - began visiting army's base hospital in Delhi he midst of the Kargil conflict. had nothing more on their than the wish to cheer up soldiers. Then they "managed persuade the army and J&K Minister Farooq Abdullah to us Kargil", visited the hos- a couple of days after Tiger was captured. Another round cheering up. That's when Virat ided to make a documentary what happened. As soon as the was over, she spent about a nth-and-a-half travelling from to Batalik, from Tiger Hill to pling, moving with the troops were there at the time. "The d of stories she got were phe-menal," says Aamir. "When I the footage, I said 'My god, ve just got to do a play as well'," The documentary will happen time soon, when Virat gets time. But for now she is lost in parations for a production that required 12,000 wooden 85 tonnes of steel, 2,500 of plaster of Paris, 700 litres paint. 45 carpenters, 10 ma- … Are they nuts? "Once you play like Legend," says Virat, gets addictive. An open-air play huge sets holds much more itement for me now than some-thing in a closed auditorium." It also holds more risks. The 50 Day War is the third in a series of such mega plays that Aamir has directed (all productions from Welcomtheatre, Welcomgroup hotels' theatre brand), starting with Legend in 1994 that was also performed on the Mumbai seafront. The second was Saare Jahan Se Achcha. And now this. In between, there have been smaller productions and variety entertainment shows such as Satyameva Jayate that was put up as part of the BJP's one-year-in-power celebrations last year. That's the one where the Lahore bus was driven on to a massive stage which cracked under its weight. Special effects director for the show and that Rajiv Singh shrugs off the memory, explaining that the driver had erred in taking the vehicle to a weak portion of the stage. "We've put so much preparation into this one," he adds, "that I don't think anything will go wrong." So what's different about The 50 Day War? It's recent history. It's also a stringing together of real conversations, real situations and real incidents, all recounted to Virat by the soldiers. Situations like the young soldier from 2 Rajputana Rifles strumming his guitar and singing Papa Kehte Hain just before their deploy-ment. "It's an emotional docu-ment of the war that's also meant as a tribute," says Aamir. It's not just a romanticised look at the In-dian Army, adds assistant direc-tor Saurav Sinha, not about "an absence of fear, but our soldiers' ability to overcome fear." It's touching 2.30 a.m. and rehearsals are on in full swing, Cast member Sqn Ldr Praveen Hasija grins from under his woollen cap: "This is fun for me because I've just come back from a three-year posting in Simla." There are intermittent flashes in the distance, as welders work on the seating platform. "See this," says Aamir, 43, pointing to his beard, more white than black. "I'm not as old as I look, and this is why." For a piece of the action, what's a few grey hairs anyway?
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