It was as a 16-year-old schoolboy that Sunil Shanbag first watched a Girish Karnad play. "It was [Satyadev] Dubey's production of his play Hayavadana at the Tejpal Auditorium in Gowalia Tank. And I was completely blown away. It made me decide to do theatre for the rest of my life," he recalls. Over 45 years later, in a full circle of sorts, Shanbag has directed a Karnad play for the first time, for the annual student production of Drama School Mumbai.

The play's cast includes 16 students