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How Arora taught Zeeshan Ayyub that his truth is bigger than the audience response.

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													Zeeshan Ayub with Keval Arora (Courtesy: Vidya Das Arora)It was in 2000 that I took admission in Kirori Mal College (KMC) and encountered The Players, the dramatics society shepherded by Professor Keval Arora, completely by coincidence. I was a science student, an engineering aspirant. I had no interest in acting. I just saw a pamphlet for the workshop and thought, I’ll have some time to attend. And on the second-last day of the sessions, he visited us for the first time. By then, people had started responding to my performances, so I was happy.

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We started this exercise where we had to blindfold ourselves and explore our space, and if we ran into someone, we had to recognise who it was. When my turn came, I walked around and reached Keval, touching his face. When people started laughing, I pretended not to know who he was, feeling his beard and glasses, and well, the little hair on his head.

“You didn’t recognise me?” he asked me later.

“I was playing for the gallery,” I said.

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