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“I’ve been coming to India since 1979 and feel quite at home here,” says Peerzada, who is attending NSD’s Theatre Utsav not only for pleasure but also serious business. She is planning a joint venture between Indian and Pakistani film and theatre artists. She will fly down to Mumbai next to discuss her three “socially relevant” scripts with Bollywood filmmakers.
While talking to her, you sense that she straddles two planes: of an artist and a political activist, if not a politician. “South Asia must discover its commonalities and discard the differences. While directing my film Inteha, I had a sense of fulfilment as I brought together talents from Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka.” She has also contributed to Indo-Pak bonhomie by acting in Ana, the first TV production between the two countries, alongside small-screen actors Aamna Sharif of Kahiin To Hoga and Nausheen Ali Sardar of Kkusum. Married to well known theatre actor-director Usmaan Peerzada of the Rafi Peer Theatre Group, she had left filmdom to be on television and the stage, but she might just return to celluloid with a bang, with that issue-based magnum opus of hers, with Indian and Pakistani superstars.
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