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Muzaffar Ali . . . from designer to director.
MUZAFFAR ALI, designer, artist, composer and now director of a rather intriguing opera about to be shown in India for the first time. (The story is about an ugly woman who falls in love with a blind beggar.) "The Fakir of Benares", comes with an attached history and it is up to Ali, wife Meera and their two colleagues in this venture, Priya Wacziarg and French music composer Frederic Ligier, to make it palatable to Indian audiences. It was written in the early 20th Century by a Frenchman but was lost in the war. Priya Wacziarg stumbled upon it and brought it back to the country it was intended for. Said Ali, "I have tried to give it a new dimension on a visual level and since there is no tried and tested formula I have had to innovate."
Suchitra Behal
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