‘I FELT THAT MY LIFE WAS CHANGING IN THOSE DAYS, TO BE ON A SHOW OF THAT SCALE’
Shubham Saraf is having a well-deserved break. He is in India spending time with his family when The Rake catches up with him, following his lead billing in the National Theatre’s production The Father and the Assassin (by Anupama Chandrasekhar). Shubham played Nathuram Godse, the man who murdered Gandhi, in a thrilling character study that drew resounding critical acclaim. Then to India, and… well, who knows? “I never like to stay in one place for too long,” Shubham tells us. “London is the base, but I was born in India and spent parts of my childhood all over the world, and to tell the truth, I find it hard to lay down roots.”
Shubham has a thing for adversity. He describes a mountainous trek over
