Bollywood spice in culture shock play
HE was just a bright-eyed engineering student when he wrote his first play and performed in it in 2010. Even after graduating from the National University of Singapore in 2013, Shiv Tandan is still immersed in theatre and film. But this time, he's making his professional directing debut with The Good, The Bad and The Sholay - a semi-autobiographical play about the culture shock he experienced after leaving India to study in Singapore.
When he enrolled in NUS, he joined its theatre programme, which had a playwriting project mentored by Checkpoint Theatre. The play first premiered in 2011, during the NUS Arts Festival, where it subsequently received three nominations at The Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards for Best Original Script, Best Director, and Production of the Year - not a small feat…
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