Synopsis :
Zeenat Aman as Kasturba Gandhi & Arif Zakaria as Mahatma Gandhi in Dearest Bapu: Love Kasturba, an English Play directed by Saif Hyder Hasan, with musical elements & larger than life scenario which is a visual treat for the audience.
The Bollywood Diva, Superstar of 70s & 80s Indian Cinema, lead heroin of Satyam Shivam Sundaram & Don, Zeenat Aman. Marking Zeenat Aman’s comeback on stage after 19 years with “Dearest Bapu, Love Kasturba”, attempts to trace the historic events that transformed Gandhi into the Father of the Nation, and subtly recounts the marital woes that defined his relationship with Kasturba for 60 years. “Marriage chocked me… I learnt the concept of Satyagraha from you, my feisty better half”, confessed Gandhi. Arif Zakria as Gandhi & Zeenat Aman as Kasturba Gandhi performs in the background of India’s Freedom Struggle, Partition, Satyagraha & everything happening in the 19th century in India & also in Gandhi’s life.
The play opens with the drama of the Quit India movement. Gandhi is arrested & sent to the Aga Khan Palace in Pune. Kasurba leads in his absence. She too is arrested & sent to the Arthur Road Jail in Bombay. Due to bad health she is sent to be with Gandhi. A few years later she passed away. Now, her soul write letters to Gandhi. These letters evaluate their relationship of 60 years. From marriage till death, the letters leave nothing. She writes & Gandhi responds, nothing is left out – Politics, Marriage, Family, Children, Sex, Companionship. The letters form the core of the love story.
There’s a beautiful moment in the play, Dearest Bapu, Love Kasturba when Kasturba reads out a letter her spirit has written from beyond the grave. It is about the time she was released from prison in the early 1940s while Gandhi was still shackled. She says, “What do I do of freedom if it is to be had without you?”
Watch a legendary performance of Zeenat Aman & Arif Zakaria, its on very rare occasions does these kinds of theatre productions are staged which makes it hard to miss.
Zeenat Aman acted in the iconic roles of 70s & 80s Indian Cinema like Satyam Shivam Sundaram, Don, Dostana, Hare Rama Hare Krishna, Qurbani, Yaadon Ki Baaraat, Dharam Veer & endless movies with Amitabh Bachchan, Dev Anand, Dharmendra, Aamir Khan , Shashi Kapoor, Vinod Khana, Jeetandra, Amjad Khan, Mithun Chakraborty, Shatrughan Sinha, Rajesh Khanna, Rish Kapoor, Dilip Kumar & many others.
Arif Zakaria performed in Raazi, My Name is Khan, Krrish 3, War & many others.
Watch the legendary actors perform on stage.
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