Tarali Sharma at the release of Tarali-- Songs of a Star in Guwahati recently. Picture by Eastern Projections

Guwahati, July 1: She has a date with one of Shakespeare?s most enduring heroes and she wants to ensure that it is just perfect.

National award-winning singer and composer Tarali Sarma is going back in time to create the perfect music for the Shakespearean play Othello, to be staged by Kohinoor Theatre.

Tarali, who will make her mobile theatre debut with Othello, has lined up a series of meetings with experts on Shakespearean drama at the Toronto-based Guthrie Theatre, which specialises in staging his plays. The academy was set up in memory of British dramatist Sir Tyron Guthrie.

During her stay in Canada, Tarali will also visit the towns of Edmonton and Calgary, where Shakespearean drama societies abound. She might make a short trip to England later to study music in Shakespearean plays. Along with Zubeen Garg, Tarali represents the very best of the young crop of talented singers and composers in Assam. She is also the first woman to be given the responsibility of composing music for a mobile theatre group.

?The project is a challenge for me. Firstly, it is a Shakespearean play and I have to recreate the music of the period and also adapt it to the expectations of an Assamese audience,? she told The Telegraph before leaving for Canada.

Othello is one of the plays to be staged by Kohinoor Theatre, a leading mobile theatre group of Assam, this year and Tarali was handpicked to compose the music for this immortal drama.

Her trip to Canada was planned after an invitation to perform at a function in Toronto, which has been organised by the Assamese community based in that country.

Playwright Kulada Kumar Bhattacharyya said Tarali had been asked to compose music for Othello because of her ?command over the art?.

?Music is an integral part of the play, Othello. Almost all the protagonists ? Othello, Desdemona and Iago ? will be expressing their feelings on stage through songs. It will be like a musical,? he said.

Expressing confidence in Tarali?s ability to enhance the play, Bhattacharyya said: ?Her music is fresh and soulful, and can very easily establish a character.?

Starting her career as a singer, Tarali made her debut as a music director for national award-winning director Manju Bora?s film Aakashi Torar Kothare. She went on to win the best playback singer in the national film awards, 2003, for her rendition of a devotional song Kimote bhakati karibo tomako?

Since then, Tarali has composed music for several other films, including Bora?s Laaj and a short film, Passage, by Sanchita Sharma. The latter was screened at Cannes this year.