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Well, love is not a competition, it is just about being happy with someone whom you can give happiness. So focus on love and happiness and strive to strike a balance that gives a win win situation for both the people in the relationship. :)

It is not the lines from the play, but I think that sums up, what the play was about.

Girja Ke Sapne

It is a beautifully scripted musical play. I watched it at Prithvi today. It talks about how Girija a small village girl with big dreams coaxes his husband to strive for big things in life, take up loans and strive to achieve a lot. But alas when things dont turn out the way you expect them to, you loose it all and have nowhere to fall back upon. The sad plight of farmers who are deceived by rains and end their life.

ek madhav baug

I went to watch the Hindi adaptation of the play Ek Madhav Baug at Prithvi Theatre. It is a play about a mother getting to know about her son's homosexuality. What was running through my mind was the movie Memories in March, that dealt with a similar subject. Though similar, the way the story was projected is what made a difference. It was an amazing one actor play that was superbly performed by Mona Ambegaonkar.
The setting is of an enactment of a play within the play which makes it even more amazing. She keeps the audience captivated through out the period of a little more than an hour, as she depicts the story portraying the emotions of the different characters.
She enacts a story of a divorced mother who has raised her three children and leads an independent life in her home at madhav baug. On a rainy day she decides to take leave from her office and stays back at home, only to receive a phone call that informs her that one of her son is gay. She is shattered as she is not able to understand how her child who she thought had not even grown up had a different preferences. The play here on shows how the love of the mother for her son, makes her come out of the narrow minded thinking that doesn't think much of others who are just 'not the same'.
When she confronts her son, he doesnt deny it, but rather gives her a pen drive which he says is his diary that he wants her to read. when she reads it on the laptop, it is actually a journal that he had kept of what he wanted to share with his mother about the fellings and emotions that evoked in him making him different from others. He tells a tale of how he tried to cope up with the situation and tried to alter his orientation. Through out as the mother reads the journal, she feels the pain of what her dear child had to go through as he didn't have the answers to the questions that came to his mind and how he couldn't just come up to his mother and talk about it.
Then comes the climax, where she rounds up an excellent performance as she comes closer to her son to be part of his life and understand him better and support him in his perplexities.
Once again, hats off to the writer of the original play for the way it was created and to actress for pulling off an amazing performance.

Bombay Talkies

I was planning to watch Subha Mudgal and her band Koshish perform at NCPA. But somehow I was stuck in office and couldn't attend that. Then I decided to check out if there was any other event around. I found there was a play at Prithvi theatre, Bombay Talkies, so decided to watch it.
It was about 8 different monologues. 8 different lives ni this one crazy city. From an actress recounting her days of casting couch, a young homosexual recounting his sexual exploitation as a child, a middleman who helps people get things done in government offices, a bright young lady trying to come to terms with her life as just a house wife, a young gujju boy trying to get immigration and settle in Canada, a lonely single mother longing for some affection and the industrialist who wants to exploit the city to fulfill his dreams. It was entertaining to see about so many lives in a single play.