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Peter Brook Brought the Mahabharata to the World
His Padma Shri is fully deserved but comes too late in his life.
Theatre and film director Peter Brook. Photo: YouTube screengrab
It was April of 1984. I was in bed with bad jaundice. In the newspapers, I had been following the search for a Krishna or Draupadi, for the international production of Peter Brookâs
The Mahabharata.
I knew of him only via theatre friends. They always spoke of him with reverence, as the master magician of 20th-century theatre. The papers reported that he was here for only one of these two characters, and that would be the only Indian in the cast. He was to travel to the usual cities, Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Calcutta and Bangalore. The then Czarina of culture, Pupul Jayakar, had a list of close to 200 âsuitableâ actors for auditions. And that script was followed.