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9.1 A Fine Balance "Darkness on the Edge of Town"

9.1 A Fine Balance "Darkness on the Edge of Town"

Update: 2024-03-04
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Dramatisation of Rohinton Mistry's acclaimed novel about India's underclass.  Two tailors - uncle and nephew, Ishvar and Om - come to the city to escape from the caste violence in their native village. They are employed by a Parsi woman, Dina Dalal who runs a sweatshop from her apartment and is struggling to preserve her independence. She has a lodger too, a reluctant student, Maneck, from the mountains.  As their initial suspicion of each other turns to friendship and then love, their lives take dramatic and often shocking turns against a backdrop of India in crisis, during “the Emergency” of the mid-1970s, a period marked by huge political unrest and human rights violations.  A comedy, a tragedy, a story of the triumph of the human spirit under inhuman conditions.



Cast



Dina - Shernaz Patel



Ishvar - Kenneth Desai



Om - Ananad Tiwari



Maneck - Neil Bhoopalam



Rustom - Zafar Karachiwala



Ibrahim - Rajit Kapur



The Thakur - Jayant Kripalaini



Ashraf -  Darshan Jariwala



Nusswan - Farid Currim



Ruby - Anahita Uberoi



Narayan - Vivek Madan



Young Dina - Tirtha Kotrial



Young Ishvar - Eshan Savla



Young Narayan - Samar Uraizee



Ensemble – Jim Sarbh, Abhishek Saha, Meherangiz Acharya-Dar, Faezeh Jalali, Shivani Tanksale, Nadir Khan.



Production:



Music - Sacha Putnam 



Sound Design - Steve Bond



Production Manager – Niloufer Sagar



Producer - Nadir Khan



Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and Kewel Karim from the novel A FINE BALANCE by Rohinton Mistry



Director - John Dryden

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9.1 A Fine Balance "Darkness on the Edge of Town"

9.1 A Fine Balance "Darkness on the Edge of Town"

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