Vilas Kalgutkar belongs to the lighter side of the big theatre divide. He firmly believes that plays should be entertaining. "If you don't have an audience, there is not much point to the play. It has to reach out to people. Plays like Waiting for Godot, you just end up doing them for your satisfaction," says he. Obviously, Vilas has taken a leaf out of Renoir's book, who believed that paintings were just meant to decorate walls and nothing more. And following that conviction, Vilas is currently working with the grandfather of laughs - Bharat Dabholkar."I have been with Bharat since Last Tango in Heaven, which was his second play. Our latest play, Mind your Stethoscope is running right now," says he. He has also done plays in Marathi and Hindi. And the actors he has worked with include the likes of Rohini Hattangady in Medea. Vilas, who is 40 now, trained as a commercial artist at the J J School of Art, but these days, he has hung up his paintbrush for the camera. He shoots for various ad agencies and magazines. His tryst with the camera has also taken him to the other side of the lens. A decade or so ago, Vilas was quite a popular model.
