Tumhari Amrita

Tumhari Amrita
Written byJaved Siddiqi (Indian adaptation)
CharactersAmrita & Zulfi
Date premieredFebruary 27, 1992
Place premieredPrithvi Theatre, Mumbai

Tumhari Amrita is an epistolary play directed by Feroz Abbas Khan. Its original cast includes Shabana Azmi and Farooq Shaikh.[1][2] It is an Indian context adaptation of A. R. Gurney's American play, Love Letters (1988), and the Hindi/Urdu version was created in 1992 by playwright Javed Siddiqui. After its première at Prithvi Theatre, Mumbai on 27 February 1992, it has been staged at venues across India, Europe, Middle East, US and Pakistan.[1][3]

The story of unrequited love is read out through reams of love letters between Amrita Nigam and Zulfikar Haider, exchanged over 35 years, starting with Amrita's eighth birthday party in the 1940s, when she first wrote to the ten-year-old Zulfi.[1][4]

  1. ^ a b c With Love, Tumhari Amrita The Times of India, Feb 2, 2011,
  2. ^ Vijaykumar, Chithira (January 20, 2011). "On a creative high". The Hindu. Chennai, India.
  3. ^ Their letters won our hearts The Times of India, TNN 21 January 2009.
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