Gujarati audience needs to support local plays: Mallika Sarabhai

While plays like

Mughal-e-azam

,

Akoopar

,

Welcome Zindagi

do well in Ahmedabad, not many local productions have not been able to do well. Unlike Mumbai, the financial backing for theatre is inadequate in Ahmedabad.
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Mallika Sarabhai

, “In Ahmedabad, creative people are not the ones who are doing commercial plays. If you give them the space to create something, you also have to support them. Besides, the Gujarati audience doesn’t support local productions. The same audience won’t mind spending `5000 for an average play coming from Mumbai. When

Kadak Badshahi

moved from Darpana to Shreyas, the expenses shot up. Where do we get more finance from?”