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Have a good laugh at these two improv shows in Mumbai
Updated On: 16 April, 2024 07:48 AM IST | Mumbai | Devanshi Doshi
Two shows in the city this week brings together some of the best improv artistes who promise to deliver chuckle-filled, interactive performances
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(From left) Mehta, comic Abhish Mathew, Tarang Hardikar, Shantanu Anam, Neville Bharucha and Aditya Kashyap
You might be forgiven if you believe improv artists who weave off-the-top-of-the-head, punchy dialogues into full-fledged comical plays within minutes don’t experience stage fear. But if you ask 28-year-old Sahir Mehta, who’s been in the industry for nearly 10 years, the fear of messing up never goes away. “The key [to improv] is to embrace your mistakes,” the founder of collective Little Big Stories shares. To prove this in practice, Mehta is inviting some of the best improv artistes of the city to deliver a performance in the first run of their production, Unsobered Nights, today.
“We are hosting this in collaboration with Medium Sized Improv, a weekly show founded by Neville Bharucha, Manik Papneja and Shantanu Anam, where the same bunch of improv artistes gets together every Wednesday to perform small, humorous impromptu acts,” Mehta explains. Anam, who also runs Little Big Stories alongside stage artistes Papneja and Mehta, tells us that they plan on taking Unsobered Nights across the country, starting with Mumbai. “The Indian market has many local, homegrown and indigenous brands of alcohol popping up now. The aim is to bring artforms on the rise in India, such as improv, and these local brands under the same roof. We will collaborate with some of the best local bars and homegrown alcohol labels across India, and host such improv shows to both entertain and build a community.”
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