Who says that you will fall in love only once in life? I fall in love quite often when i come across something which makes me cry or laugh or gets me into a deep thinking.
Yes all these things happened with me in just a span of a hour when i watched the play "Sangathi Arinhya!". This time i dragged Raghu too with me, so four of us went for the play. And about the skin, there is no comment everything was great :). Koshy and Raghu were doubly convinced that they would never miss a good show at Ranga Shankara :).
About the play
'Sangathi Arinhya! is my second play of the troupe Perch from chennai. I truly believed this play would be great after i watched their first play "MoonShine and SkyToffee" and my belief in them didn't go vain.
Sangathi Arinhya is a play scripted around the different stories from Vaikom Muhammad Basheer. I am sure that who ever sees the play will fall in love with the authors works for sure, each of the characters in the play mesmerizes you to the core and takes you to a different world.
He has shown light and questioned the beliefs on many social and religious issues existing in the society with such a humor that no one would object it and the message is conveyed straight to your heart with any effort from our side.
I don't remember the character names but characters like this , a young Military person who speaks about the war in the world and how to bring about peace in society makes everyone cry and think at the same time. The person who enacted this role also above the mark.
There were also some bold and strong messages on the love life and problems of hijdas which made the whole auditorium silent for few minutes. And lot of other characters which are completely love filled and humourous. The love between two jail mates and their separations will make any soul wet, the story of how a physically handicap person transforming into a world famous personality in which he literally does a postmortem and shows everyone how our society functions.
Each of the characters were so well nurtured that you totally get into them when they come on screen. The play is so well scripted that the author Basheer himself interacts with each of his characters and every thing happens around him and he himself is part of the play. The very thing which moved me is that in the end when he is about to die, all his characters he has created will sit around him, some fanning him and others cheering him and saying their last good bye.
He mentioned at the end of the play that he might be gone as like his other friends into nowhere land but his works and his characters will live for ever. That is really true each of his characters would live much longer and lot of people like me will fall in love with his works for many more years to come.
I just read a short auto biography of Vaikom Muhammad Basheer and its really more interesting than his stories.
Every one born here should die some day. But i feel persons like Basheer are just born , never dies.
P.S : Check out Rangashankara.org for details of the play "Sangathi Arinhya".
1 comment:
This play was truly class apart. I strongly feel that author Basheer is eternal, so does his characters, the mockery characters of so called society is done and enacted beautifully. I got lost in the play with laughter and tears. Thanks to Ravi for his invite. Author Basheer will never die as Ravi truly says.
Team Perch enacted the play par excellence, I was flattered by each of the characters, the direction with the combination of stories superb. I read through Basheer's wiki, long live his works... play is must watch for all.
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