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Her latest stage presentation, "The Rummy Game" is a bitter, sweet, comedy which has already received rave reviews. Ms. Merchant enjoys reading, listening to music, travelling, cooking & spending time with her family. Her other activities include holding regular workshops on speech, diction, public speaking, etiquette, communication skills, confidence & stage presence. She also lectures at the SNDT University besides holding sessions for top managerial staff of Corporate and Business Houses like the Taj Group of Hotels, The Jindal Corporation and Owens Corning. Besides managers and executives, lawyers, doctors, enterpreneurs and media people have attended her training programmes. Earlier she had worked on a variety of programmes for radio and television. In the 70's she became very popular after her TV quiz programme, "What's the good word?" ran for a record breaking 15 years on Doordarshan. For some years now she has also been training the contestants of "Femina Miss India" and her students have represented India at various International beauty pageants.
He is known as the Master of Comedy and his productions have the best of English theatre talent in terms of actors, actresses and directors like the famous Alyque Padamsee and the late Pearl Padamsee, to name a few. He has been regularly having shows in Dubai of some of his plays like: Don't dress for dinner, A flea in her ear, Ah Norman, Run for your wife and many more including some adaptations of famous Broadway plays like Barefoot in the park etc. He has produced a great variety of comedies,
dramas and musicals (Sound Of Music, My Fair Lady) and he is also a
winner of State Award for theatre. He is an associate of the National
Centre for the Performing Arts (N.C.P.A.) in Mumbai and is responsible
for live events like the prestigious ANNUAL SCREEN AWARDS. |
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