The cattle and the connoisseur.
The winds are hot!...the roads..sparsely occupied ….add to that the heat of the crusade , the desire to revel in the nuances of a ‘play’ called ‘Begum ka takiya’. And you have made it to the location in mid afternoon.
What does one see? People swarming in.
How does it feel? At this point, very nice because you believe theatre is catching up amongst the ‘mass’.
For a while its been not about the oughts…….but about the ‘foughts’ and the ‘thoughts’ in regards to making a visit to an auditorium. I am sure people fight their gym schedules and their TV shows and their lunches and the gossip and whatever…. that should not be compared to this divine habit of reveling as the audience.
Baharhal……..
Begum ka Takia is a story of two brothers; one is a simpleton and the other ambitious. It is directed by Ranjit Kapoor’s and is an adaptation of Anand Kumar’s novel.
The oughts have me puzzled.
When was clapping within a play, after every act a tradition? Is it like a kavi sammelan? I remember that the finest of artists would resist the temptation of applause after reaching every ‘sam’. ( I know of classical dance so will restrict my conviction to that). It obstructs the connect that an artist has with himself. It is a misnomer that art is a consumable practice. Applause is to aplaud and not obstruct the conduct. ( wow a toungue twister!)
Was the ‘mass’ there to revisit the ramlila experience?
Well, how would I know……cause I might have the ‘mass’ but am not part of the ‘maans’ (meat , flesh of humankind).
How about a ‘theatre appreciation’ course? They run some things for girls when they get married called polishing (finishing) schools. Wonder what they polish because most of them after marriage will loose their gloss and sheen…(not sadism..its called sarcasm) and most I said not ‘all’. And the ones who retain it aint wanting to go to any finishing school. They were sent on the planet ‘finished’. Back to the begum and the takiya.
Why was it called a comedy? It was so potent as social satire. Comic , I disagree…I might not have even smiled on most of it if the others were not laughing and falling out of their chairs. Every statement had such deep rooted imprint of the human mind. Very enjoyable not laughable.
The knots were incredible. The sheer length in time of the play allowed characters to develop, take root in the mind and the heart. The central character the good natured naïve brother peera was implemented perfectly. Made one think if there were more peera’s around !...the simplicity of understanding basic human attributes….the not so needed knots…..overall a mixed emotion. The audience OUGHT to have been more mature in interpretation, the KNOTS that unfolded in the mind will need to be interpreted over days and especially hot afternoons of silence.
Very true...the problem with the foolish people is (excuse my honesty of expression here, can't help it) they would keep clapping and laughing for over 10 seconds...long enough to miss what followed that punch, which in most of the cases, were such hard hitting sudden dialogues likely to kill the former laughable statement. I missed a number of important dialogues because people were laughing and clapping for 30seconds for 2sec punch spoiling the entire intention of the script which I found extremely skillfully written and beyond the much obvious graphic nature of it.
ReplyDeleteOverall, brilliant performances by the leads. Even though the ending was not as polished as the rest of the play, you still have enough to think about climbing down the stairs on your way out.
Quite an agreeable post with to-the-point facts. Though I would have loved to know more about the content of the play (from the writer's eyes) and the writer's key moments in the play. Liked reading it.
:) keep it up!