Originating from Mumbai, he entered the world of performance at age seven, portraying both male and female characters in the Hindu epic Ramayana. After studying under Indian theatre director Satyadev Dubey for over a decade and joining the Indian National Theatre in 1995, he built a repertoire that spanned classical Indian drama and Western works by Pinter, Sartre, Camus, Ionesco and Mrozek. His s…