KOCHI: As we walk into the attic-like space of Audiostation at Panampilly Nagar,
Sanal Aman walks in followed by
Santhy Balachandran and co-founder of the studio, Seljuk Rustum. Aman speaks about how he was drawn to the medium from the age of 10 when he acted as a monkey in his first play,
Vaalum Kurangum
. “I would do a play every year after that and at the age of 15, I wrote and directed for the first time, a play called Pavagalude Logathekku.“
Thereafter, the actor went on to National
School of Drama
in Delhi after studying mass communication in Kollam, studying acting in Hyderabad and then going to School of Drama in Thrissur.
After spending three years in Delhi, he acted in a multi-lingual Indie film, Eli Eli Lama Sabaksthani. Sanal's connection to the studio space and with Seljuk happened by chance. They got to know about the space via a friend and formed an immediate connection. “We decided to explore something on this space together and thus Forplay was born,“ he explains. Santhy too got associated with the company by chance. “I got in touch with Sanal only because of this poster about an audition my father forwarded,“ she says. “I love doing creative things. I paint, write, take pictures, and that's what brought me here,“ she quips.
Reve a l i n g t h at Girish Karnad's
Agniyum Varshavum
is his favourite play, Aman hopes to create a the atre community, a dedicated entity with this studio space in the city. Other than that, he hopes to get musicians and bands perform and record tracks here.
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