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Arvind Gaur
Arvind Gaur is an Indian theatre director, actor trainer, social activist, street theatre worker and story teller.[1] He is known for socially and politically relevant plays in India.[2][3] Gaur's plays are contemporary and thought-provoking, connecting intimate personal spheres of existence to larger social political issues.[4][5] His work deals with Internet censorship, communalism, caste issues, feudalism, domestic violence, crimes of state, politics of power, violence, injustice, social discrimination, marginalisation, and racism. Arvind is the founder of Asmita, which is a theatre group in Delhi.[6][7]
Gaur was the recipient of a research fellowship awarded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (India) (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.[8]
He organizes theatre workshops for children[9] in schools and slums as well as street theatre performances on socio-political issues.[10][11][12] He has directed more than hundreds stage and street plays over 25 years.[13][14][15]
^Neelima Menon (27 April 2008). "Staging Narratives-Storytelling session for visually impaired children". The Indian Express. Retrieved 24 December 2008.
^Nandini Nair (3 May 2008). "Walking the causeway". The Hindu. Chennai, India. Archived from the original on 6 May 2008. Retrieved 9 October 2008.
^Sonal Jaitly (10 June 2012). "Theatre is calling for change in India". Washington Times. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
^Vatsala Shrivastava (7 May 2010). "Livewire, uninterrupted". The Asian Age. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
^"Brechtfast in Ballimaran". Time Out Delhi. Archived from the original on 31 December 2013. Retrieved 9 October 2008.
^"Delhi celebrates its street play culture". Hindustan Times. 11 April 2017.
^Trisha Gupta. "Super trouper". Archived from the original on 31 December 2013. Retrieved 9 October 2008.
^Stony Brook University (14 October 2004). "Untitled: A Solo Theatrical Performance by Lushin Dubey". Charles B.Wang Center. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012. Retrieved 24 December 2008.
^Ishita Agarwal (24 June 2008). "Theatre tactics". The Hindu. Chennai, India. Archived from the original on 3 November 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2008.
^Kinni Chowdhry (30 August 2010). "It is not just a play". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
^Esha Vaish (7 July 2012). "Dialogue and debate from street plays inspire change". Tehelka. Archived from the original on 14 May 2013. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
^"Teach India strikes the right chord". The Times of India. 14 July 2008. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2008.
^Malini Nair (1 July 2017). "Such a drama queen". The Hindu. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
^"A treat for the senses". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 5 July 2007. Archived from the original on 3 November 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2008.
^Jahnvi Sreedhar (23 February 2012). "A Toast to Twenty". The Indian Express. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
ArvindGaur is an Indian theatre director, actor trainer, social activist, street theatre worker and story teller. He is known for socially and politically...
his acting career in 1994 with eminent theatre director ArvindGaur. His major plays with Gaur are Tughlaq, Andha Yug, Final Solutions, Desire Under the...
his acting career as a theatre actor in Delhi with theatre director ArvindGaur and Panchchnan Pathak ..Later he got trained from eminent theatre Guru...
like Untitled and Pinki Virani's Bitter Chocolate with theatre director ArvindGaur. She has acted in films like Partition (2007), Murder Unveiled (2005)...
Manush in early the early 1970s with Keya Chakraborty playing the lead. ArvindGaur directed another Indian adaptation by Amitabha Srivastava of the National...
writer who works in Hindi films. Rishi is trained under theatre director ArvindGaur for six years. He won the Filmfare Best Dialogue Award in 2009 for Oye...
India's marginalized. The play went around 120 schools and colleges. ArvindGaur later directed it as a play, with the same name. Darpana Academy has...
briefly took up modelling before being trained under theatre director ArvindGaur. She made her film debut in the 2006 thriller Gangster, for which she...
Akademi Award. His plays have been directed by eminent directors like ArvindGaur, Alyque Padamsee and Lillete Dubey. Dattani makes a bold move when he...
directors like Ebrahim Alkazi, B. V. Karanth, Alyque Padamsee, Prasanna, ArvindGaur, Satyadev Dubey, Vijaya Mehta, Shyamanand Jalan, Amal Allanaa and Zafer...
Fires, and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince with director ArvindGaur. Rashi Bunny was selected as "one of the 50 Icons: Emerging personality...
Arth (film). Bhatt also produced The Last Salute, a play directed by ArvindGaur, based on Muntadhar al-Zaidi's book, starring Imran Zahid. Bhatt is co-owner...
Bindiya Tripathi Ansh as young Murari Gupta Sujata Kumar as Chief Minister ArvindGaur as Guptaji Shailendra Singh as Guptaji's secretary Shivi as Shivi Amarnath...
(English). Hanoosh (1977), staged by theatre director Rajindra Nath and ArvindGaur (1993). it was adapted into Kashmiri as "Waqtsaaz" by Manzoor Ahmad Mir...
Ebrahim Alkazi for National School of Drama and remarkable production by ArvindGaur (1995-2008, still running) for Asmita Theater Telugu translation of the...
Indian Air Force. Shome went to Delhi's Lady Shri Ram College and joined ArvindGaur's Asmita theatre group. She moved to New York in the autumn of 2004 for...
Purushottam Deshpande into Hindi as Raaste. The Hindi play was directed by ArvindGaur and Satyadev Dubey. She played various supporting roles of elder women...
Asmita Theatre Group in 2008. She was trained under theatre director ArvindGaur, and participated in his theatre workshop in college. She coordinated...
Singh, first with Ranjeet Kapoor (1991) and later under the direction of ArvindGaur (1996). By then, he had established himself as a theatre director and...
PSBT, titled 'Passive Euthanasia: Kahaani Karuna Ki'.Theatre director ArvindGaur scripted and directed it as solo play 'Aruna's Story'. Solo act performed...
20 years. Prominent Indian directors Om Shivpuri, Shyamanand Jalan, ArvindGaur and Ram Gopal Bajaj directed this play. In 2005, this very writing process...
languages by prominent Indian directors like B. V. Karanth, Prasanna, ArvindGaur and Sanjay Upadhyaya. Bhakta Sarvagya (भक्त सर्वज्ञ) Prem Malika (प्रेम...
While at university Zahid became involved with a theatre group run by ArvindGaur. He continued acting while being employed as a professor. Zahid has said...
(Taledanda) into Hindi, first directed by Ebrahim Alkazi for NSD and then by ArvindGaur (1995) for Asmita Theater. In 2017, he was honoured with Kalidas Samman...
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