Wedding Album : New play of Girsih karnad

Writer : Girish Karnad
Director : Lillete Dubey
Cast : tkarsh Mazumdar, Neena Kulkarni, Ira Dubey, Suchitra Pillai, Rajev Paul, Amar Talwar, Seema Azmi, Deepika Deshpande, Raaghav Chanana & Armaan Sunny

It was performed in Bangalore courtesy IFS and as right now they are collaborating in one of our courses, I was well aware of it in advance.

1. Venue was chowdia auditorium , a violin shaped building. Nice architecture we should have something similar in every city.
2. As usual with dramas, and that too by big names are full of high society and intellectual people specially the first category who would laugh heartily in a tragic scene and be mum in scene of quick wit.

3.Now come to the play, i will rate it average only. Premise had potential but writer a known communist and Hindu basher wanted to insert even his political views in the drama. So unnecessary subplot of heroine going to net cafe and youth of nationalistic organizations raiding that place where otherwise submissive heroine uses 4 letter word umpteen number of times and turns tables on these guys.

4.A very bleak view of the housemaid , a typical elite view.

5. One fails to understand if boys going to USA , Australia are available in such plenty why would a government officer in Hyderabad would want to marry his daughter to an arts graduate who does ntohnig for living. In fact the humor tried to be induced by Amar Talwar was very cliched.

6. Similarly the angle of neighbouring boy falling for Suchitra pillai. Similarly cliched was the old father role though acting was good in both cases.

7. Play started well with good use of AV devices where in on of the videos shot by heroine brother is shown but then use of stagecraft i.e. both light and sound is missing.

8. The bridegroom is shown to be completely opposed to what one would typically expect an NRI groom to be.

Overall I spent a good 500 bucks and 4 hrs in going to the far off place and watching this drama.
Saving grace supeb acting by Neena Kulkarni and Suchitra Pillai.
Kudos to them