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| D'Arranged Marriage played 7th - 12th, 27th & 28th June, 18th – 21st December, 2005 From India With Love played 14th - 26th June, 2005 Written & Directed by Tarun Mohanbhai & Rajeev Varma Produced by Chae Lian & Richard Harding Gardner Staged in The Actors Studio @ Bangsar Shopping Centre |
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Those Indian Guys are Rajeev
Varma and Tarun Mohanbhai. Formed in 2002
to explore Indian culture and mores through comedy and theatre,
TIG is forging a name for themselves as really funny Indians.
D'ARRANGED MARRIAGE premiered in Auckland at the TV2 International Laugh Festival 2002 starring Mohanbhai. Written by Mohanbhai and Varma and directed by Varma, the show was a sell-out success. Since then, the show has toured to the Melbourne Comedy Festival and had a sell-out season at the Sydney Opera House Studio in 2003. D'ARRANGED MARRIAGE and the premier of the prequel FROM INDIA WITH LOVE in the Auckland season of the LAUGH! 2004 Comedy Festival solidified Those Indian Guys as a force in New Zealand comedic theatre. |
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RAJEEV VARMA Actor Rajeev Varma graduated from Unitec with a Diploma in Acting in 1995 and went on to form the Rising Generation Theatre Company, whose productions included Play Lunch, Spies Spy or Die and Versus all written by Toa Fraser. Raj produced the premier season of Bare by Toa Fraser at the Silo Theatre, which went on international success. His directing credits include Painted Lips by Katherine Van Beek at the 2001 Fringe Festival and D'ARRANGED MARRIAGE. He was a member of Improv Bandits for two years and toured nationally and internationally with them. Other theatrical roles include Peter in The Diary of Anne Frank directed by Raymond Hawthorne, the national tour of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), The Taro King. Most recently Varma appeared in the premier of Awhi Tapu, by Albert Belz produced by Taki Rua to critical praise. In 2003 he formed The Untouchables Collective, New Zealand's first South-Asian theatre company which premiered its first production Yatra at the Wellington Fringe Festival 2004, to great acclaim. Rajeev Varma is a New Zealand born Punjabi/Rajasthani Indian. |
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TARUN MOHANBHAI Director Tarun Mohanbhai first began his comedy career at school entertaining his classmates, but it wasn't until 1996, that he first performed live at Kitty O'Briens comedy evenings. His career took off from there and in 1998 he had his first festival show, Driving Mr Daisy with Mike Loder, for which he won the Quest of the Fest competition. It was also in this year that he made his first trip to London where he performed at Comedy Café, and to Canada where he was onstage at Lafflines, Yuk Yuks and Urban Well. Since then, he has gone from strength to strength, performing at every New Zealand International Comedy Festival with such shows as Curry and Rice (2000) and Curry Muncher (2001), on television in Pulp Comedy and Mercy Peak. In 2002 he devised D'Arranged Marriage, for which he was nominated for a Billy T Award. The show was a sellout success and in 2003, he became a founding member of the The Untouchables Collective, New Zealand's first South-Asian theatre company which premiered its first production at the Wellington Fringe Festival to great acclaim. Tarun Mohanbhai is a New Zealand born Gujerati Indian. |
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23/06/2005 The Star by Saras M. Manickam
19/06/2005 New Sunday Times
by Kiren Kaur & Subhadra Devan FROM INDIA WITH LOVE
14/06/2005 The Malay Mail by
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