Cast & Crew Details...

Shivani Tibrewala, Writer / Director

    

Ms Shivani Tibrewala is a playwright and director from Mumbai whose theatre company, No License Yet Productions, has produced over 200 shows of various plays written and directed by her which have been performed all over the country and abroad. She has worked in collaboration with numerous institutions, such as the Theatre Royal Plymouth (UK), the Italian Chamber of Commerce, Flinntheater (Germany), Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, etc. She is on the Panel of Artists of the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.

Besides writing, directing and producing plays, Shivani has also written mainstream and documentary films, television serials, and for publication. Besides pursuing a career in writing, she has also worked as a Content Consultant with Indian television channels such as STAR and NDTV, and taught communication courses for Bombay University. She also regularly conducts writing and theatre workshops for young children between the ages of 6 and 60.

Milind Chitnavis
    

Milind Chitnavis has been composing - both Indian & Western music - for over a decade now. His diverse repertoire includes music for feature films, short films, ad films, documentaries, audio-visuals, corporate films, TV Serials and a stage musical. Having studied professional guitar at The Guitar Institute of Technology, Hollywood, CA, U.S.A., and Hindustani Classical Vocal here in India, he settled down to score music in Mumbai (formerly 'Bombay'), India. He has composed music for the feature films 'Purush', 'Koi Baat Nahin' & 'Limited Manuski' and short films such as 'Ehsaas' & 'Kash-m-Kash' for Rohit Kaushik/Maaj Entertainment' and 'Chaubees Ghante' for Madhura Samarth. His list of TV Serials includes 'Manzil' & 'Gulmohar (West)' for the late Shridhar Kshirsagar (Astraa Telecast); part of 'Missing' for Ken Ghosh (Shadow Films); and 'Shaqs' & 'Tadap' for Rohit Kaushik. 'Agra - A legend lives on' & 'Gujarat' for the Ministry of Tourism, 'TIFR' & 'IUCCA' for Arun Khopkar form part of his documentary portfolio. He has also composed scores & jingles for various ad films such as 'Hindustan Petroleum', 'Aquafresh toothpaste', 'Citibank', 'Jaquar', 'Marc', 'Air Canada', 'Royal Nepal Airlines', 'Saffola', 'Benzer', 'Lakme', 'Proline', 'Nestle', 'McDonalds', 'Samsung', 'Bank of Punjab', 'Vicks', 'BPL Mobile' - and even the Dept.of Income Tax! He has also composed the music for corporate films & audio-visuals for Eureka Forbes, J.K.Synthetics, Ponds, Nerolac & Sunsilk amongst others; the anthem song of the AAAI Awards; election song of the Congress; the Doon School golden jubilee musical choreographed by Astaad Deboo & directed by Ratna Pathak Shah ...
the list continues. He says his best is yet to come.

Ameya Naik
    
Ameya Naik did his Diploma in Sound Recording Course from the Bombay University. He passed the 8th grade exam of Music from the Trinity College Of Music. He has trained in Tabla from Pt.Vibhav Nageshkar, Pt.Sadanand Naimpalli and through workshops conducted by Ustad Zakir Hussain and his brother, Ustad Fazal Qureshi. Composed, arranged and recorded music for a couple of English plays like Close Quarters, Tale Of Manna Seth, Insomnia. Also recorded and mixed music for a 2 hour play- Operation Khazana by a NGO ? Akankasha. Composed themes for the English play VERDICT by Divya Palat and Aditya Hitkari. Composed and arranged music for two Marathi serials which were telecast on alpha Marathi channel and a few episodes for kamini damini on sahara and karthika on hungama. Composed music for a Kargil documentary for Star Plus?.and title song for a serial on hungama. Composed music for a bhajan album ( released) and arranged and recorded music for Chinmay Mission. Recorded many individual projects and songs and voice-overs at his studio-setup. Composed music for, Hewitt, Amby valley and CNBC films. Composed music for Zee Cine awards promos, Commercials like Boroplus, Charaghdin, goa gutkha, quality walls, Nigerian commercials like Hollandia milk, Dena Bank, Alcatel mobile phones, Charminar Cement sheets, Bank of Baroda and Boroplus. Is scoring the background score for a Marathi feature film, titled VIKSHIPT and a hindi serial mein dal dal vo pat pat directed by Pravin Godbole. He has also composed song based jingles for Sonpari and LOC on Star Plus, as well as music for a Percept Picture company English feature film titiled SACRED EVIL. He loves to live in the world of fusion and classical world music, and anything that demands work from the heart.

Mona Ambegaonkar

    

Can?t think of what to say. Have never done this!!! Alright. So here?s an attempt at an introduction?? Mona got her B.Sc. in Physics, trained as a pilot, and went on to become an actress? She did active theatre work with Nadira Babbar for 3 years, and has been with Makarand Deshpande?s Theatre Group (Ansh) for the last six years. Having acted in several plays 10 feature films, around 20TV shows, and approximately 50 advertising campaigns over the last ten years, she says she?ll take quality over quantity, any day of the week. She is partial to the radical and the unexplored.


Tom Alter

    

A well-loved veteran in the field, with 175 films, 50 television serials, 15 stage plays, scripts, commentaries, a cricket book and a novel to his credit, ?Tom uncle? needs no introduction. His return to theatre after a three-year gap has been warmly welcomed by audiences all over the country. Besides ?Whatever You Say?, he is currently touring with an evening of poetry called ?Trisanga?, and a solo performance of ?Maulana Azad?. He can resist anything except dark temptation.

Other Cast
    . P P Bajaj
    . Theron de Sousa
    . Malaika Shenoy
    . Srimoyee Mitra
    . Nikita Shah - Voices