In the World of Shazahn Padamsee : Bollywood News

Career confusion

I was a confused mind as a teenager. At one point in my life, I thought that I was useless and a called myself a loser. You feel so helpless sometimes when you cant find what you really want to do, you know. Its the most frustrating feeling. It happens to all, especially when you are coming from a family like mine. My parents work 24/7. There is never a break. So I too wanted to get busy like them. But it never happened. I felt that I wasnt good enough. I tried so many things besides event management and advertising. Then came fashion, script writing and had my hands and feet all over the place.

Favourite play

My favourite play has to be Evita for sure because it had my parents in it. Ive grown up watching my mom in it. In fact, when my dad did the first Evita, my mother was pregnant with me. I think the year was 1987. Ten years later, they did another version of Evita which was revamped. I was eleven and had come especially to watch the play from my boarding school because I had worked on the play backstage and then I had to go to my boarding school for a year. I was very upset to go as the play really meant a lot to me. I always had tears when she sung. My dream would be to feature in a play called West Side Story.

Musical and Broadways

I wish that musicals get introduced here in India. Whenever I went to New York, I used to watch the Broadway theatres. Its so grand and its grandeur was even better. But there is no reason that we cant do it. Weve got the tools but the problem lies in the fact that nobody has thought of bringing in that concept to India. Theatre can be looked at in a bigger way and it takes a lot of people to do that. For musicals to happen here there has to be a big theatre movement.