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Arvind Gaur
  • Date of Birth:
    December 2, 1963
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Sagittarius
  • Place of Birth:
    Delhi, India
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Hair Color:
    White
  • Nationality:
    Indian
  • Education:
    Model School, Vivek Vihar, Delhi

Family

Arvind Gaur
  • Father:
    Shiva Nandan Shrama
  • Mother:
    Saraswati Devi
  • Brother:
    Anil Gaur
  • Sister:
    Shashi Prabha, Mithlesh, Anita Gaur
  • Spouse:
    Sangeeta Gaur
  • Daughter:
    Kakoli, Saveree

Career

Arvind Gaur

Trivia

Arvind Gaur
  • Arvind Gaur also collaborated with various Theatre artists and Groups specially in exploring a new language for Solo performances.
  • He achieved greater heights during a decade in theatre. He trained actors in his own style. He trained them as a complete theatre person.
  • All through his years with street theatre, print and television, Arvind Gaur had developed keen interest in direction. Finally, after devoting two years to PTI-TV he felt the urge to switch to theatre completely.
  • He was associated with TV serial Tana-Bana. He was in charge of the research and programming there.
  • Watching plays, reading about them and writing about them is how his training in theatre started. He then shifted to Press Trust of India (PTI-TV).
  • His first street play was with Zakir Hussein College, called Videshi Aya. It became very popular and he staged it around 200 schools. After this, his desire to express led him to journalism. He worked with the Navbharat Times newspaper as Culture columnist for about four years.
  • He has directed more than 60 stage plays over two decades.
  • He has organized theatre workshops for children in schools and slums as well as street theatre performances on different socio-political issues.
  • He has conducted many theatre workshops and performed in various colleges, institutions, universities and schools in India and abroad.
  • He was on the guest faculty of Delhi University for Theatre in education program for three years.

Biography

Arvind Gaur
Last Updated: Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Arvind GaurThe Indian theatre director Arvind Gaur is known for his work in original, socially and politically significant theatre. Arvind Gaur`s plays are contemporary and thought provoking. The message of his plays often links to intimate personal spheres of existence to larger social political issues. The works of Arvind Gaur relates to communalism, Crime of State, injustice, social discrimination, caste issues, Politics of power, feudalism, and domestic violence, violence, marginalisation and racism. He is the leader of Delhi`s one of the most popular theatre group and is also an actor, trainer, social activist, and storyteller.

Arvind Gaur was born on 2nd February, 1963 in Delhi to Shri Shiv Nandan who is a retired Maths teacher and mother Mrs. Saraswati Devi. Arvind Gaur`s wife Dr. Sangeeta Gaur is a talented vocalist, composer and music director and they together have twin daughters Kakoli and Saveree. Arvind Gaur was the recipient of a research fellowship awarded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (India). He is the guest faculty of Delhi University for Theatre in education program for three years.

Arvind Gaur has conducted many theatre workshops and also he himself performed in various colleges, institutions, universities and schools in India and abroad. Arvind Gaur has organized theatre workshops for children in schools and slums as well as street theatre performances, where the plot was based on different socio-political issues. He has directed more than 60 stage plays for more than two decades.

Arvind GaurArvind Gaur has directed Girish Karnad`s Tughlaq Translations by B. V. Karanth, Surekha Sikri & K.K. Nayyar, Bhisham Sahni`s Hanoosh, Dharamvir Bharati `s Andha Yug, Swadesh Deepak`s Court Martial and many more performing slots. With passing years, Arvind Gaur became a name whose works were categorized as something different from other thaetre works. He followed with Govind Deshpande`s Antim Divas, Albert Camus`s Caligula (play), Girish Karnad `s Rakt Kalyan (Taledanda), Bertolt Brecht`s Caucasian chalk Circle, Mahesh Dattani`s Final Solutions, Eugene O`Neill`s Desire under the Elms translated by Nadira Babbar. Arvind Gaur also assisted Shri Habib Tanvir during the Prithvi Theatre Festival, Mumbai.

Arvind Gaur`s Naya Theatre performed seven Productions in this Festival, from a revival of Habib Tanvir`s first major production, "Agra Bazaar" that dates back to 1954, to the new "Zahreeli Hawa" based on the Bhopal gas tragedy. Arvind Gaur also did some solo play direction like Story of the Tiger, solo with Jaimini Kumar Srivastava, Women in Black, Untitled, solo with Lushin Dubey, Bhisham Sahni `s Madhavi solo play with Rashi Bunny and many others. Arvind Gaur designs lights for NAYA Theatre`s major productions under the Direction of Padma Shri Habib Tanvir. The plays of Arvind Gaur are powerful artistic statements.

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