Sarmad Khoosat says theatre is the platform through which you can express yourself more freely than in a political rally, by creating a story and dialogue. He was talking exclusively to Naya Daur.
- Theatre, or any other medium of storytelling,
- is certainly very important because through them
- you tell stories around you and the ones inside you
- It also happens that when you look at something
- you’ve gone through
- from another person’s point of view,
- you understand a lot of things about your own life
- If you look at theatre’s history,
- it has even contributed to revolutions
- You can say things at a theatre that you can’t in a rally
- with the help of a story and dialogue
- Other visual mediums, mainly cinema and TV,
- include many other techniques and ingredients
- but theatre is always dialogue-heavy,
- almost always, in the kind of theatre we practice today
- So dialogue too is very important in life
- I feel that we’ve stopped listening to people
- We just want to speak and impose our opinions
- We listen to others only to pass our remarks in response
- But in theatre, even when you’re saying a wrong thing,
- there’s another character that corrects you, through dialogue
- If you’re saying the right thing, you’d have to create
- a conflict or a conversation with another character
- So theatre promotes dialogue
- and I think an exercise in dialogue is important for us all
- Moreover, we don’t have many outlets for entertainment
- so definitely theatre is entertaining,
- and it’s very real also
- I think, for me, as an actor,
- nothing can match the experience of working at theatre