Unscripted with Akarsh Khurana
Jul 29, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min · 11 segments
Lights up… music swells… and backstage, the energy builds as everyone searches for the cue to begin. A musical is never made by one person. It begins with an idea, finds its voice through music…
Akarsh KhuranaHost
Sharvari DeshpandeGuest
Namit DasGuest
Amitosh NagpalGuest
Taruk RainaGuest
Shruti SharmaGuestMantraGuest
And everyone was calling me up and saying that, congratulations, you are representing us.
What I realized the moment I landed and my journey with monsoon wedding, the musical and our journey actually is that's another, that's another podcast.
And I realized that, you know, back home, this was the biggest thing that I was coming to.
And the moment you, land in NYC, you realize that's one of the million things that is actually happening there.
And then the amount of actors, the amount of musicians And you realize that the entire industry functions properly because there are rules and regulations.
You know, there is a particular kind of theater that happens and there are many kinds of theater that happens.
again, it's a two prong, I mean, because you were also on Monsoon Wedding and while it had some Indian actors.
So in terms of having worked with, say, more homegrown musicals with the IPTA and with that, like, the disparity in terms of just approach, what he said, but your experience of it, of Moms and Wedding, and also because you trained as an actor abroad.
Yeah.
What does that change for you when you're approaching, say, a musical production here, for example? Is that different from what your colleagues are doing here when they're approaching
And everyone was calling me up and saying that, congratulations, you are representing us.
What I realized the moment I landed and my journey with monsoon wedding, the musical and our journey actually is that's another, that's another podcast.
And I realized that, you know, back home, this was the biggest thing that I was coming to.
And the moment you, land in NYC, you realize that's one of the million things that is actually happening there.
And then the amount of actors, the amount of musicians And you realize that the entire industry functions properly because there are rules and regulations.
You know, there is a particular kind of theater that happens and there are many kinds of theater that happens.
again, it's a two prong, I mean, because you were also on Monsoon Wedding and while it had some Indian actors.
So in terms of having worked with, say, more homegrown musicals with the IPTA and with that, like, the disparity in terms of just approach, what he said, but your experience of it, of Moms and Wedding, and also because you trained as an actor abroad.
Yeah.
What does that change for you when you're approaching, say, a musical production here, for example? Is that different from what your colleagues are doing here when they're approaching
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