"I really enjoyed your script as well as your spontaneity and energy"
- Mahesh Dattani, Playwright - Director, Bangalore (about the play The Final Rehearsal)

"Lighting and design is of international quality. A visual treat"
- Matt, Lighting designer for Complicite's "Measure for Measure", London (about the play The Final Rehearsal)

"Very creative use of space and props. I am glad I watched the show"
- Girish Kasaravalli, Film Director, Bangalore (about the play The Final Rehearsal)

"Final Rehearsal was a wonderful one man show that had some excellent ideas and as a piece of writing actually got to the core of what it means to be an actor."
- Quasar Thakore Padamsee, Director, Mumbai (about the play The Final Rehearsal)

"The protagonist was sitting on the chair quietly much before the play started. The bell rang and the drama unfolded. The difficulties faced by an actor and his undying spirit to win the best actor award are the main jest of the play. The obscurity of the content was itself a good strength. The play gripped the audience despite its initial enigma, thanks to its intensity. The versatility of the actor was exhibited. His voice modulation and the sudden change in facial expressions were laudable. The effort-estimation behind a single person performing continuously for an hour is difficult. Well, there was another sensitive co-actor Brownyell(a chair). The satire and pun were present throughout, but I liked the great detail in the personification of Brownyell. But the abstractness was challenging. Distraction and relaxing for even a second meant you missed something. Acting and dialogue delivery fetch full points to the performer."
- Reviewed by an audience member (about the play The Final Rehearsal)

It's a must watch for all the acting lovers. There are two aspects to it -
1. There are bits of plays in the story - the role is of a person who wants to be the greatest actor. Most of the time he's narrating his own life-story and his passion for acting. While he does this - he has shown the talent beautifully... I like the parts where he acts as influenced by other objects or people... like someone dragging him, or himself playing a kite... I could feel the thread. There were parts where he had this dejected emotion in his eyes.. Just the eyes... all watery and full of sadness... But after sometime it was getting confusing, thinking where this is leading us
2. Now comes the second aspect of the play... the climax and the end... it just glues all those bits he enacted before... in those 2-3 min of climax, you are left thinking about the whole play again... and you realize why it all happened.
- Reviewed by an audience member (about the play The Final Rehearsal)

Congratulations Pawan - that was a most unusual play.
by Debbie Rodgers, Deccan Herald (about the play Honey Lets Break Up)

Is there a repeat of the play, "Honey Lets....." in Rangashankara anytime in the near future? I would definitely wanna watch it a second time. Please do let me know if there is.
Regards, Sebastine, Audience (about the play Honey Lets Break Up)

"Honey! Let's....." was brilliant. A comedy that I enjoyed after a long time.
By Kapil, TCS (about the play Honey Lets Break Up)

The last day of the festival certainly had packed house. The audience enjoyed the evening thoroughly, what with the subject being so close to its heart. Literally! The play was full of witty lines on relationships, some which brace the storms and some that sink at the first signs of the cloudy weather. Disjointed events are seamlessly woven together: stereotypical notions, settings and conversations that lead up to the oh-so-critical time of breaking it off with an ex. The play even offers sure-short tips on how to successfully achieve that perfect break-up. While it is a bag of laughs, it also does deal with the sheer lack of durability in relationships. But the playwright is hopeful. If one tries hard enough and takes it for granted that when you overcome one storm, there is no guarantee there wont be another and another and yet another, there might be hope still sailing in, leaving you with rosy thoughts of forever-after sweetly lingering.
You could buy into it if you are that kind of a person. The painter, with a boyfriend incessantly calling and talking to her answering machine, certainly didn't! A fun evening, with some spunky performances all around. The writer/director seemed to have drawn from what he claimed were his vast reserves of experience to comment playfully on the fickleness of man-woman relationships in our times.
The device used for welding scenes together are spontaneous and fresh. The flash lights I found distracting after a point, as the actors were not using them effectively. With the exception of the opening scene where an actor is hung from a rope over a table, while his wine-sipping girl friend is telling him to take a hike, the rest of play I thought was tight and put together quite well.
- Mallika Parasad, NSD student, Bangalore Bias festival critic