Veteran actor Salim Ghouse passes away due to cardiac arrest - Salim Ghouse most famously appeared in the iconic television show Bharat Ek Khoj where he played the roles of Lord Ram, Lord Krishna, and Tipu Sultan.
Veteran stage, television and film actor Salim Ghouse who featured in several Bollywood, south Indian and English movies passed away following a cardiac
The composer’s transcultural experiments were always intense and persuasive
“The Brahma-rakshasa needs more lines!” “The chorus can’t drown out the High Priest!” “The duet works, now shorten the moonlight aria!” For six years, between 2003 and 2009, enigmatic communications like these would fly across Mumbai by phone, by fax, and by courier between Vanraj Bhatia’s studio and mine. During those years, I worked closely with the legendary composer and music director on an opera, Agni Varsha (‘The Fire and the Rain’), based on Girish Karnad’s play, which the playwright had translated into English from his original Kannada. While I developed the libretto, Vanraj composed the music. In the process, I spent many delightful and sometimes exasperating hours with the maestro, listening as he played passages from our evolving work on the piano, imbibing a series of masterclasses on tempo, orchestration, polyphony, and the seemingly impossible project of creating