Description Bombay, 1943.
The young Parsi actress who was playing Salome in the newly founded Theatre Group's production of Oscar Wilde's eponymously titled play drew the line at performing the Dance of the Seven Veils, a sort of 'Biblical striptease'.
So director Sultan Padamsee's 19-year-old sister Roshen stepped in.
And met the handsome, intense Arab who played the male lead-Ebrahim Alkazi.
In 1946, they were married.
Thus was forged one of the gr.
Speaking Tiger Books Enter stage right: the alkazi-padamsee family memoir, paperback/feisal alkazi
