Gujarati theatre director Manoj Shah loves people who don’t give a damn.u00a0Circa 2000, after he read the biographies of Vincent Van Gogh and Charles Bukowski, Shah was deeply impressed by the greats who weaved magic, uncaring of what society thought of their work. “I knew, back then, that I had to find a similar personality who was a Gujarati, and make a play in the same language,” says Shah.u00a0

In the play Mareez, actor Dharmendra Gohil plays the role of the famous Gujarati poet of the same name