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A new touring production of The Kite Runner, a play based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini, has an actor in its ranks who not only previously played the role in the West End, but also won Best Newcomer at the Asian Media Awards in 2017 for it. That actor is Bhavin Bhatt, a graduate of De Montfort University, where he studied drama. And he is also a trained dancer. Bhavin plays the villainous Assef in the play, which is set in Afghanistan and includes a number of events in the country’s recent history, but says there is much more to his character’s pe…

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