Acting MasterClass with Sohaila Kapur (Weekdays)

Jun 15, 2020

11.00 AM

Online Event

With Tickets – RS 7500/-

2020-06-15 11:00:00 2020-06-15 00:00:00 Asia/Kolkata Acting MasterClass with Sohaila Kapur (Weekdays) Sohaila Kapur’s online workshop has been designed to focus on identity and performance skills. The mind, body, and voice will be honed to produce the complete actor, who is able to get under the skin of any character, anytime, anywhere, in any medium. Sohaila Kapur is a reputed writer, playwright, actor, director, and acting coach. Performance comes naturally to her as she comes from one of the established families of Bollywood, the Anands. Filmfare Award winners Dev and Vijay Anand and Cannes award Chetan Anand were her uncles (mother’s brothers), while Oscar & Bafta-nominated film director, Shekhar Kapur, is her older brother. Amongst the younger generation, Purab Kohli (Rock On, Jal) is her nephew. As an actor, Sohaila has worked with some of television’s and Bollywood’s top talents in approximately 20 television serials, including ones directed by Chetan Anand, Shyam Benegal, M.S. Sathyu, Parikshit Sahni, Satish Kaushik, Chandita Mukerjee, Mohena Singh and Jalal Agha; a national award-winning feature film (Govind Nihalani’s Rukmavati Ki Haveli) and an equal number of theatrical productions, where she has worked with directors Amal Allana, Veenapani Chawla, Nadira Babbar, Tom Alter, Feizal Alkazi, and Arun Kuckreja and actors Neena Gupta, Anupam Kher, Tom Alter, Nandita Das, Raj Zutshi, Sudhir Pandey, Ila Arun, Sanjana Kapoor, Sushmita Mukerjee, Javed Jafri and Satish Kaushik. As a Theatre Director, Sohaila has directed around 40 plays, with distinguished Delhi-based actors like Zohra Sehgal, Sunit Tandon, and Danish Husain. She directed `Rumi: Unveil The Sun’, which got critical and popular acclaim (12 nominations in META)and was invited to perform in the U.K. She has coordinated and directed a series of dramatized readings of post Independence playwrights, which was hosted by the India Habitat Centre from July 2019 to Feb 2020, till the lockdown was declared. Selections from the readings are now going online. She has also directed three short feature films, Parinday (shot in Tihar), Anubhuti & Mulaquat. Online Event Creativeyatra.com info@creativeyatra.com

Sohaila Kapur’s online workshop has been designed to focus on identity and performance skills. The mind, body, and voice will be honed to produce the complete actor, who is able to get under the skin of any character, anytime, anywhere, in any medium.

Sohaila Kapur is a reputed writer, playwright, actor, director, and acting coach. Performance comes naturally to her as she comes from one of the established families of Bollywood, the Anands. Filmfare Award winners Dev and Vijay Anand and Cannes award Chetan Anand were her uncles (mother’s brothers), while Oscar & Bafta-nominated film director, Shekhar Kapur, is her older brother. Amongst the younger generation, Purab Kohli (Rock On, Jal) is her nephew.

As an actor, Sohaila has worked with some of television’s and Bollywood’s top talents in approximately 20 television serials, including ones directed by Chetan Anand, Shyam Benegal, M.S. Sathyu, Parikshit Sahni, Satish Kaushik, Chandita Mukerjee, Mohena Singh and Jalal Agha; a national award-winning feature film (Govind Nihalani’s Rukmavati Ki Haveli) and an equal number of theatrical productions, where she has worked with directors Amal Allana, Veenapani Chawla, Nadira Babbar, Tom Alter, Feizal Alkazi, and Arun Kuckreja and actors Neena Gupta, Anupam Kher, Tom Alter, Nandita Das, Raj Zutshi, Sudhir Pandey, Ila Arun, Sanjana Kapoor, Sushmita Mukerjee, Javed Jafri and Satish Kaushik.

As a Theatre Director, Sohaila has directed around 40 plays, with distinguished Delhi-based actors like Zohra Sehgal, Sunit Tandon, and Danish Husain. She directed `Rumi: Unveil The Sun’, which got critical and popular acclaim (12 nominations in META)and was invited to perform in the U.K. She has coordinated and directed a series of dramatized readings of post Independence playwrights, which was hosted by the India Habitat Centre from July 2019 to Feb 2020, till the lockdown was declared. Selections from the readings are now going online. She has also directed three short feature films, Parinday (shot in Tihar), Anubhuti & Mulaquat.