Naseer to portray Rushdie, bring memoir to life at Prithvi Festival
MUMBAI, Oct. 11 -- Veteran theatre artiste and film actor Naseeruddin Shah will play Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie in a stage adaptation of the latter's memoir 'Knife', which recollects the 2022 murder attempt on the author, who was stabbed repeatedly during a literary festival in the US.
Titled '27 Seconds', the play, also starring Malaika Choudhury as Rushdie's wife Rachel Eliza Griffiths, will open at the Prithvi Theatre Festival next month. "I have been an admirer of Naseer's for a very long time. I'm delighted he has taken on this project," Rushdie told HT in an email interview.P3...
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