Satyadev dubey

satyadev dubey died. 

i never worked with him , but many of my actors , harish patel , vihang nayak , mohan bhandari , and some friends like ambarish puri , came from his stable , so to say . i had difficulties , initially , to break them into my kind of theatre . where you pause when audience laughs , and don't treat them like a fourth wall, as dubey had taught them .

 for dubey theatre was god , to me audience is . two extremes 

and yet we got along well . to my surprise , he loved bottoms up .said it had more experiments in it than most experimental theatres had . he saw all versions of bottoms up . liked them ( he was frank enough to say it if he didn't ) . i saw some of his plays . didn't understand them , didn't like them (wasn't frank enough to tell him ) . but always admired his conviction and commitment to theatre . there are not many like him . hats off dubeyji !. he will be happy in heaven , when he meets a few people like him . he never needed a big audience , just a few like-minded people ,and a few like me , who didn't understand his plays but understood him .