He’s toyed with the idea of directing a play for nine years, but it’s only now that Ashvin Gidwani, the production brain behind popular plays such as Monkey Business, Funny Thing Called Love, Double Deal and Walking on Broken Das, has finally embarked on his wish that was buried beneath production deadlines and money matters. Gidwani has now begun work on his debut directorial venture, titled The Scent Of A Man, which will be staged in Mumbai in the first week of November.

Ash Chandler and Bhavna Pani in a still from the play