Akhil Pandya Adaakar Arts

Akhil Pandya (Adaakar Arts)

Role in the Production – Director

Akhil Pandya is not merely a man of the theatre—he is a vessel through which stories breathe, emotions unfold, and silences speak. With a journey spanning over three decades across India and Canada, Akhil has carved a space for himself not just as an actor or a director, but as a quiet, persistent force in the soul of stagecraft. His early years in Gujarati theatre saw him perform in nearly fifty full-length plays and over fifteen television serials, each role deepening his understanding of the human spirit and its contradictions.

In Canada, he found new soil to sow his artistic seeds, becoming an integral part of the cultural fabric through his deep and continuing association with Sawitri Theatre Group, Swar Sadhana Music Lovers Club, and Mizaaj Arts. With these institutions, he has directed and shaped an impressive array of full-length, and one-act plays in Gujarati, Hindi and Urdu —each production a delicate weave of text, music, movement, and silence.

Akhil’s work is marked by a poetic sensibility—his directorial choices often hover at the edges of the spoken and the unsaid. He is drawn to the emotional undercurrents of a scene, the pause between two lines, the tremble in a character’s silence. He is a director who listens—to the actor, to the script, and to the silence of the space. Under his vision, theatre becomes not just a performance, but a ritual of empathy and expression.

More than any one play or platform, it is Akhil’s unwavering belief in the transformative power of theatre that defines him. For those who have worked with him, he is known simply as the man who breathes theatre—who lives not in the spotlight, but in the sacred shadows behind the curtain, where stories begin.

For Akhil, Directing Ankahein Samvaad is not about telling stories. It’s about evoking a triggering thought: “Time may heal, but it cannot rewrite what silence once cost us…perhaps all would be different, had we spoken when we still could.”