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Pervaiz Alam

PERVAIZ ALAM   

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Pervaiz Alam, a freelance journalist and screenwriter, has written two full-length plays for stage. These plays- 'Safar' and 'Zahoor ka Hotal'- were commissioned by Watermans Arts Centre, Brentford, UK. The two plays are the part of an incomplete trilogy on 'nostalgia'. Safar (The journey) has been staged at various venues in London, Leicester, Birmingham, Edinburgh's Fringe Festival and at Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House in the West End. 'Zahoor ka Hotal' was staged at Watermans Arts Centre in London. A book, based on Alam's stage plays in Hindi/Urdu, is under publication by India's leading publisher Rajkamal Publications. A former BBC journalist, Pervaiz Alam is the Artistic Director of a London-based theatre group, Desi Canvas. He is also the Director of India-EU Film Initiative. His most recent film as a co-screenwriter is 'Shoot on Sight' (2008) by Jag Mundhra. He lives in London.

Plays by Pervaiz Alam

Safar (The Journey)

1st Produced:

Waterman's Arts Centre, Brentford, London >>>

2002

Company:

Desi Canvas UK, Watermans Arts Centre, Sama Arts Network, Edinburgh Fringe

1st Published:

Rajkamal Publications, India,

ISBN/ASIN:

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Music:

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

2

Female

1

Parts other:

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Notes:

The play 'Safar' in Hindi/Urdu was staged in London, Leicester and Birmingham. It was invited at the Fringe Festival of Edinburgh 2003.

Synopsis:

Safar' (The Journey) is a tale of exodus from imaginary homelands and of perpetual, irrepressible longing for such paradises lost. It's the journey of an immigrant into the unknown who discovers his past in London. Woven through the personality of the protagonist Vishal - descendent of a Hindu family that migrates from the Pakistani Punjab to India in 1947 under forced conditions. The same Vishal comes to London as a migrant worker. What happens when we migrate from one country to the other. What happens when we are forced to live in exile? How the trauma of migration affects our relationships. Vishal's journey into the unknown world of nostalgia has just begun.

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Zahoor ka Hotal

1st Produced:

Waterman's Arts Centre, Brentford, London >>>

2005

Company:

Desi Canvas UK and Watermans Arts Centre

1st Published:

Rajkamal Publications, India,

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

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#40782

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

15

Female

5

Parts other:

10

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Zahoor ka Hotal' (Zahoor's Hotel) is about growing up in a communally divided city of northern India, Aligarh. It also documents growing up in the volatile decade of the 1970s. Failed writers, out-of-work artists, pimps, eunuchs, activists and students converged at Zahoor's for hours of heated discussions on sex, politics, religion and music in the 1970s. But what Kabeer remembers best, now living in dark and dreary London, is listening to Binaca Geetmala on Zahoor's grand old radio. The show, hosted by the legendary broadcaster Amin Sayani, opened the door to many debates, arguments and ideas that shaped Kabeer's way of looking at the world.

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