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Saturday, August 15, 1998
Rahul da Cunha
Theatre director and playwright Rahul da Cunha, whose most-recent feather in the cap is the brilliant adaption and sensitive direction of Talking With -- a part of Going Solo -- cannot forget the first time he read Animal Farm. This George Orwell book remains his all-time favourite for "its uniqueness of format, where animals posed as people and its bitter satire." Hemingway is just as high up on Rahul's list for his ability to paint pictures with words, "In the Old Man And The Sea and For Whom The Bells Toll, he creates the most amazing visual imagery," he says. And in the detective and murder mystery genre, Rahul takes his hat off to Ed McBain and Agatha Christie respectively for their understanding of the criminal mind. "Both had you chewing you nails in excitement and anticipation," he says. P G Wodehouses's talent for drawing good humour out of the simplest situations also has Rahul in awe, "As a writer, I wish I could write like that." And his director's mind lovesArundhati Roy's God of Small Things for the extremely vivid descriptions, "I could see Kerala so clearly," wondering how its critics failed to see the book's beauty.Copyright © 1998 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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