Theatre
Ranjit Chowdhry: theatre in his blood
Vikram Phukan
Although the late Ranjit Chowdhry’s claim to fame has primarily been as a character actor in films — a familiar face particularly in the cinema of the South Asian diaspora — he was born into theatre royalty as it were, and a fruitful late innings on the North American stage had earned his career an artistic fillip of sorts, as he gracefully slipped into the mature parts that often eluded him on screen. Born in 1955, Chowdhry was raised by his mother, the peerless theatre director and actor Pearl