Tumhari Amrita
Tumhari Amrita is an epistolary play directed by Feroz Abbas Khan. Its original cast includes Shabana Azmi and Farooq Shaikh. 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.
| Tumhari Amrita | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Javed Siddiqi (Indian adaptation) |
| Characters | Amrita & Zulfi |
| Date premiered | February 27, 1992 |
| Place premiered | Prithvi Theatre, Mumbai |
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.
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