Juhi Babbar Instagram – Jatinder Singh BRAR SAHAB 🎭💔
A life devoted to theatre. A legacy that lives on🤍
Indian theatre has lost one of its rarest visionaries.
A mechanical engineer by training, Brar Sahab chose a far more demanding calling and dedicated his entire life to theatre. What he created in Amritsar, Punjab through NAATSHALA continues to leave one in awe.
The main theatre space is simple, intimate, and utterly state of the art. The lighting, the seating, the scale, and the use of light and water reflected his clarity of thought. Nothing is excessive, nothing ornamental. Everything serves theatre.
The smaller auditorium revealed the man he truly was. Designed especially for the physically challenged, it featured a stage that could descend to floor level at the press of a button, allowing performers on wheelchairs to enter with dignity and ease. Flexible seating, free chairs, no barriers. A space where everyone belonged.
There is also a beautiful aangan, a space that carries quiet warmth and welcome.
Separately, the green room is the most fabulous I have ever experienced. Not fabulous in expense or flash, but in feel. It was created with heart, thought, and deep respect for theatre and theatre artists.
Brar Sahab was the guiding force behind countless artists, especially those who went on to become huge comic stars with national and international recognition. Many artists of Punjab proudly call themselves students of Brar Sahab.
I feel deeply fortunate that with my mother Nadira Zaheer Babbar, I performed Ekjute’s Pencil Sey Brush Tak on the life of M F Husain at NAATSHALA, and more recently returned to perform With Love Aap ki Saiyaara at the same space. This photograph is from that visit, a moment I will now hold even closer✨️
Thank you Brar Sahab for blessing generations of theatre artists and for giving your life entirely to theatre. You lived fully, you gave endlessly, and your absence is a profound loss to Indian theatre.
You will forever stay in our hearts🙏🏼🎭
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