Hosi Vasunia

Hosi Hormusji Vasunia (October 8, 1939-August 10, 2005), known popularly as Hosi Vasunia, was an Indian theatre personality and film and television actor. He acted in the English theatre in Bombay (now, Mumbai); he also appeared in Gujarati plays and in Hindi films and television. He was part of the flourishing of drama in Mumbai in the 1970s and 1980s and 1990s and continued the long tradition of Parsi theatre in India.[1][2][3]


Hosi Vasunia
Born(1939-10-08)October 8, 1939
Kobe, Japan
DiedAugust 10, 2005(2005-08-10) (aged 65)
Mumbai, India
OccupationActor


Stage

Actor

Producer

Hosi Vasunia was the producer or co-producer of the following plays.

Director

  • A Thousand Clowns[89]
  • Caught on the Hop[25]
  • Are You Lonesome Tonight?[90]
  • The French Cuckoo[91]
  • Barefoot in Mumbai[92]

Filmography

Television

References

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  5. ""Princes" a moving perceptive play". The Times of India. 24 April 1970. p. 6.
  6. "Cyrus the great seen as a great ruler". The Times of India. 28 August 1971. p. 5.
  7. "Deadpan humour makes "Loot" an entertainer". The Times of India. 12 November 1971. p. 5.
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  10. "Darling, Adi has done it again!". The Times of India. 10 January 1977. p. 6.
  11. "'Never Too Late' provides gorgeous fun". The Times of India. 24 October 1977. p. 4.
  12. "Near-professional production of "Cactus Flower"". The Times of India. 12 December 1978. p. 4.
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  30. Merchant, Jiten (25 March 1990). "Conventional, clean and funny". The Times of India. p. 17.
  31. "That's Entertainment: Theatre". The Times of India. 17 August 1990. p. 9.
  32. "By a humorist, on a humorist". The Times of India. 8 April 1991. p. 8.
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  50. "Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal presents an evening of laughs in Delhi". India Today. 23 July 2001. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
  51. Shedde, Meenakshi (11 March 2001). "We have a better time after 40 than people half our age". The Times of India. p. 5.
  52. Gahlot, Deepa (28 August 2004). "Play on, Mumbai". The Times of India. p. A11.
  53. Gahlot, Deepa (15 November 2001). "The Rummy Game -- theatre at its best". The Times of India. pp. A5.
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  60. Gangadhar, V. (16 August 1986). "Slick performance enlivens 'Agnes . . .'". The Times of India. p. 5.
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  64. "Entertainment: Theatre". The Times of India. 18 April 1988. p. 6.
  65. Kapoor, Nanhee (30 July 1989). "Exuberant performance by Vasunia". The Times of India. p. 17.
  66. "Entertainment: Theatre". The Times of India. 5 January 1989. p. 18.
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  73. "For the Children, By the Children". The Times of India. 5 December 1992. pp. A3.
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Sources

India Today magazine, https://www.indiatoday.in/.

The Indian Express, https://indianexpress.com/

Parsiana magazine. The publication is archived at https://www.parsiana.com/ (subscription required).

The Times of India, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/. The digital archive may be consulted at ProQuest Historical Newspapers (subscription required).

Gokhale, Shanta, “The Dramatists”, in A. K. Mehrotra (ed.), A History of Indian Literature in English. London: Hurst and Company, 2003.

Lal, Ananda (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004.

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