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Blogger is cool and it taught me a lot ...
Wordpress i hear is super cool
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Thursday, February 15, 2007
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Seeing is believing !!!
That Four Letter Word is releasing this 23rd at Satyam Cinemas
I can give only two reasons for you to watch the film
1. If you've been a regular reader of Sudhish's blog, you'll know why
2. It has Zebra err ... Sunil from Evam
Wondering why i have put this video ?
Check out the entire video to find the reason ...
This is for all you guys who refused to believe when i showed the pic
This is for all you guys who laughed and snigered after seeing the pic
This is for all you guys who transfered the pic on net for your own gratification
This is for all you guys who cropped me out of the pic
THIS IS FOR ALL YOU GUYS ...
Am having the last laugh ! : )
Thanks to Sudhish for letting me use the link
I can give only two reasons for you to watch the film
1. If you've been a regular reader of Sudhish's blog, you'll know why
2. It has Zebra err ... Sunil from Evam
Wondering why i have put this video ?
Check out the entire video to find the reason ...
This is for all you guys who refused to believe when i showed the pic
This is for all you guys who laughed and snigered after seeing the pic
This is for all you guys who transfered the pic on net for your own gratification
This is for all you guys who cropped me out of the pic
THIS IS FOR ALL YOU GUYS ...
Am having the last laugh ! : )
Thanks to Sudhish for letting me use the link
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Love Letters
This play by Evam sounds strange mainly because we are from a generation which grew up making love on telephone, later email and as of now over mobile. Sometimes i wish i worked at Hutch in night shifts, it might be fun to listen to lovers talk, although its not manners ... Jus kidding ...
With all hopes of seeing Andrea on stage, Evam gives a surprise with Mirchi Suchi pairing up with Karthik for the day. Love Letters is a very serious play with a bit of humour here and there. The play has only two performers and Karthik and Suchitra have done their best to take it smoothly. Love Letters is a collection of letters written by two childhood friends Melissa Gardner (Suchitra) and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III (Karthik Kumar).
The play goes on for 90 mins and has been able to clearly show the phases of life from childhood till being a grandparent. Everyone must be able to relate with this play, i was able to relate only to the part till they finish college, the other phases seemed alienated for me.
Dialogues is the most important part of Love Letters. The screenplay is really good with the letters being read by the writers themselves. Lighting was supposed to be really good and never before seen in Indian Theatre but i somehow dint like the light arrangements at certain points. The guy did goof up with lights. The blue light in the beginning which gave a silhouette look to the performers was good but not great. Arranging lights is really tough and it always doesnt turn up the way expected (courtesy: my short films) and with the fact that there is no option of re takes, people work under pressure, so the faults are acceptable.
I am somehow not able to re collect the play and its been less than 24 hors since i saw it, doesnt stick to the heart. Karthik was asusual wonderful with his expressions and dialogue delivery but Suchitra was not able to cope up with his performance. Her voice in radio might have people going crazy but theatre is still a far reach for her.
With all hopes of seeing Andrea on stage, Evam gives a surprise with Mirchi Suchi pairing up with Karthik for the day. Love Letters is a very serious play with a bit of humour here and there. The play has only two performers and Karthik and Suchitra have done their best to take it smoothly. Love Letters is a collection of letters written by two childhood friends Melissa Gardner (Suchitra) and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III (Karthik Kumar).
The play goes on for 90 mins and has been able to clearly show the phases of life from childhood till being a grandparent. Everyone must be able to relate with this play, i was able to relate only to the part till they finish college, the other phases seemed alienated for me.
Dialogues is the most important part of Love Letters. The screenplay is really good with the letters being read by the writers themselves. Lighting was supposed to be really good and never before seen in Indian Theatre but i somehow dint like the light arrangements at certain points. The guy did goof up with lights. The blue light in the beginning which gave a silhouette look to the performers was good but not great. Arranging lights is really tough and it always doesnt turn up the way expected (courtesy: my short films) and with the fact that there is no option of re takes, people work under pressure, so the faults are acceptable.
I am somehow not able to re collect the play and its been less than 24 hors since i saw it, doesnt stick to the heart. Karthik was asusual wonderful with his expressions and dialogue delivery but Suchitra was not able to cope up with his performance. Her voice in radio might have people going crazy but theatre is still a far reach for her.
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Spreading the theatre bug - 2
Clap for me, i've been watching plays for three weekends in a row ... HATRICK !!! And today i brought Ashwin to watch Love Letters and he fell in love with it. I still wonder how ? Ashwin wants to go tomorrow too to watch another play but i am struck with some deadlines due on January and unable to go but he doesn't seem to give up, will try my best to make it dude : )
Today was the last show of Love Letters for this season and i dint want to miss it. So i call up Aparna to ask her to join ...
Paartha mudhal naale, unnai paartha mudhal naale ... (no thats not her dialer tune, it was me singing till she picked the call)
Ap : Heyyyyyyyyy !
Me : Hey Aparna ...
Ap : Hey i want to watch Pokiri da, shall we go this evening ?
Me : Today is the last show of Love Letters da ...
Ap : I ve been telling you for a week that i want to watch Pokiri, see i hate Vijay but i heard this movie is good and Prabhudeva has done a good job it seems ...
Me : See even i want to watch Pokiri, infact i've already seen the movie, but still i dont mind going for it but i just spoke to Kavitha da, she badly wants to see Love Letters and you know she fell in love with Karthik after watching The Odd Couple ... Lets not spoil her mood
Ap : Seri seri, Love Letters eh pogalam ...
Me : Ok meet you in 10 mins, bye !
and i hurry up with my next call
Oru maalai ila veyil neram, azhagana illayudhir kaalam (this time it was a dialer tune but for reasons best known to Kavitha alone, she has been having the same tune ever since Aircel came up with this service)
Ka : Hi Dinesh ! (in a hushy tone)
Me : Hey Kavitha ...
Ka : Sollu Dinesh ... (in her trademark tone)
Me : Where are you ?
Ka : Office Dinesh : (
Me : Today is the last show of Love Letters, shall we go
Kavitha thinks for a minute
Me : Aparna said she'll come
Ka : Oh ! ok then count me in (Kavitha and Aparna are die-hard pals, so convincing one of them is enough to get work done)
Me : Ok meet you at 6, bye !
Ashwin was rotfl after hearing this, we have been made to wait many a times by these girls (especially one of us by one of them) and he was more than happy to hear this. Ashwin who wanted to go to the beach this evening has got hooked to plays that he is not ready to even think of going to the beach tomorrow.
Today was the last show of Love Letters for this season and i dint want to miss it. So i call up Aparna to ask her to join ...
Paartha mudhal naale, unnai paartha mudhal naale ... (no thats not her dialer tune, it was me singing till she picked the call)
Ap : Heyyyyyyyyy !
Me : Hey Aparna ...
Ap : Hey i want to watch Pokiri da, shall we go this evening ?
Me : Today is the last show of Love Letters da ...
Ap : I ve been telling you for a week that i want to watch Pokiri, see i hate Vijay but i heard this movie is good and Prabhudeva has done a good job it seems ...
Me : See even i want to watch Pokiri, infact i've already seen the movie, but still i dont mind going for it but i just spoke to Kavitha da, she badly wants to see Love Letters and you know she fell in love with Karthik after watching The Odd Couple ... Lets not spoil her mood
Ap : Seri seri, Love Letters eh pogalam ...
Me : Ok meet you in 10 mins, bye !
and i hurry up with my next call
Oru maalai ila veyil neram, azhagana illayudhir kaalam (this time it was a dialer tune but for reasons best known to Kavitha alone, she has been having the same tune ever since Aircel came up with this service)
Ka : Hi Dinesh ! (in a hushy tone)
Me : Hey Kavitha ...
Ka : Sollu Dinesh ... (in her trademark tone)
Me : Where are you ?
Ka : Office Dinesh : (
Me : Today is the last show of Love Letters, shall we go
Kavitha thinks for a minute
Me : Aparna said she'll come
Ka : Oh ! ok then count me in (Kavitha and Aparna are die-hard pals, so convincing one of them is enough to get work done)
Me : Ok meet you at 6, bye !
Ashwin was rotfl after hearing this, we have been made to wait many a times by these girls (especially one of us by one of them) and he was more than happy to hear this. Ashwin who wanted to go to the beach this evening has got hooked to plays that he is not ready to even think of going to the beach tomorrow.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Who owns the road ?
I was walking home this evening from railway station through Kutchery Road, which is a busy one at evenings because it connects Luz and Santhome. One of the junctions at Kutchery Road was jammed, thanks to the three 12B s that came one behind the other. Since i was walking it wasn't very difficult to move because i was able to zip between the vehicles lined up there. On one corner, a fruit vendor had parked his cart adding to the obstruction and an elderly gentleman who was driving his bike, tried to move the cart aside. The vendor all of a sudden emerged out of a gang smoking beedis and started abusing the old man. It seems he has parked his cart using stones and if it so urgent the old man should use the pathway to drive.
Nonsense !!!
This old man pays tax. Road tax for the road he uses, sales tax for the vehicle when he bought it, and a tax on almost everything under the sun. What does this vendor pay ?
Just for this guy to have a drag of beedi, should the people in cars and bikes wait ?
Nonsense !!!
This old man pays tax. Road tax for the road he uses, sales tax for the vehicle when he bought it, and a tax on almost everything under the sun. What does this vendor pay ?
Just for this guy to have a drag of beedi, should the people in cars and bikes wait ?
Sunday, February 4, 2007
The ODD Couple
Marriages may come and go but poker stays forever
- A wise saint called Felix, married once later divorced
Saturday morning i woke up only to see Sunil's threatening mail, the last three shows of The Odd Couple were scheduled for this weekend.
The Odd Couple is the third play i watched after Art by Evam and Five Point Someone. Unlike Art which had only three performers ruling the stage, The Odd Couple had eight performers including my favourite Sunil Vishnu, the Shooshaa.
The play begins on time and is hilarious, hilarious and even more hilarious. Oscar's (Karthik Kumar) expressions were at their best, especially when he speaks to his friend Murray's wife over telephone. The story is basically about two divorcees who share an apartment, while one of them is this live-this-moment guy, the other one is the itchy, picky and naggy kind who is obsessed about cleanliness and hygiene.
Felix (Karthik Srinivasan) walks into the stage sulky but at the end of this 110 mins play, he gets along with not just one but two gals and is all smiles and no words. The stage is set in Oscar's apartment which happens to be the meeting place of the six friends for a game of poker. Things turn upside down when Felix moves into Oscar's place after divorce.
Murray (Sunil Vishnu), Speed (Sarvesh Sridhar), Roy (Navin Balachandran) and Vinnie (Shankar Ramachandran) are the poker pals of Oscar. Although the cast has eight artists, no one other than Oscar and Felix have much to do but they have the audience gripped to them during their poker sessions. The Pigeon sisters (Anuradha Ananth and Kalyani Kumar) are also divorcees and reside in the same building with whom Oscar is desperate to get laid with, but it is the unconventional and naggy Felix who steals the show in front of the gals, much to the irony of Oscar.
Situational comedy is in plenty, there is humour in every dialogue and every action. The comedy in dialogues were welcomed with thunderous claps and a high-on-weed kind of laughter, but the the audience somehow missed a few subliminal comedies. There is one scene in the end where Oscar opens the window with hopes that Felix would jump out of it, that was a perfectly executed act but somehow it dint get the response it deserved.
The best dialogue was when Oscar in the end asks Felix 'Wont you thank me?', Felix 'What for?', Oscar 'For taking you in and throwing you out!'. This had a lot of meaning, it isn't that easy to put it in such a small conversation. Evam does it really well.
The play was directed by Evam which has done a very good job. The sets were fantastic and had an apartment inside the stage. The times during set change and props change were a disappointment with some unappealing music running in the background. Evam was smart enough in Art and had a small boy entertaining the audience during props change, something similar to that could have been done this time too. And one more thing, the telephone rings on the right side of the stage but the sound of ringing comes more from the left. It was a major flaw, blame the stupid speakers.
Otherwise the play is a major fun for a saturday evening. Only two more shows of The Odd Couple are in line for this season so make sure you don't miss it.
- A wise saint called Felix, married once later divorced
Saturday morning i woke up only to see Sunil's threatening mail, the last three shows of The Odd Couple were scheduled for this weekend.
The Odd Couple is the third play i watched after Art by Evam and Five Point Someone. Unlike Art which had only three performers ruling the stage, The Odd Couple had eight performers including my favourite Sunil Vishnu, the Shooshaa.
The play begins on time and is hilarious, hilarious and even more hilarious. Oscar's (Karthik Kumar) expressions were at their best, especially when he speaks to his friend Murray's wife over telephone. The story is basically about two divorcees who share an apartment, while one of them is this live-this-moment guy, the other one is the itchy, picky and naggy kind who is obsessed about cleanliness and hygiene.
Felix (Karthik Srinivasan) walks into the stage sulky but at the end of this 110 mins play, he gets along with not just one but two gals and is all smiles and no words. The stage is set in Oscar's apartment which happens to be the meeting place of the six friends for a game of poker. Things turn upside down when Felix moves into Oscar's place after divorce.
Murray (Sunil Vishnu), Speed (Sarvesh Sridhar), Roy (Navin Balachandran) and Vinnie (Shankar Ramachandran) are the poker pals of Oscar. Although the cast has eight artists, no one other than Oscar and Felix have much to do but they have the audience gripped to them during their poker sessions. The Pigeon sisters (Anuradha Ananth and Kalyani Kumar) are also divorcees and reside in the same building with whom Oscar is desperate to get laid with, but it is the unconventional and naggy Felix who steals the show in front of the gals, much to the irony of Oscar.
Situational comedy is in plenty, there is humour in every dialogue and every action. The comedy in dialogues were welcomed with thunderous claps and a high-on-weed kind of laughter, but the the audience somehow missed a few subliminal comedies. There is one scene in the end where Oscar opens the window with hopes that Felix would jump out of it, that was a perfectly executed act but somehow it dint get the response it deserved.
The best dialogue was when Oscar in the end asks Felix 'Wont you thank me?', Felix 'What for?', Oscar 'For taking you in and throwing you out!'. This had a lot of meaning, it isn't that easy to put it in such a small conversation. Evam does it really well.
The play was directed by Evam which has done a very good job. The sets were fantastic and had an apartment inside the stage. The times during set change and props change were a disappointment with some unappealing music running in the background. Evam was smart enough in Art and had a small boy entertaining the audience during props change, something similar to that could have been done this time too. And one more thing, the telephone rings on the right side of the stage but the sound of ringing comes more from the left. It was a major flaw, blame the stupid speakers.
Otherwise the play is a major fun for a saturday evening. Only two more shows of The Odd Couple are in line for this season so make sure you don't miss it.
Saturday, February 3, 2007
Spreading the theatre bug
Of late i got interested in theatres and this bug in me was today extended to Aparna and Kavitha. Today i coaxed them and made them come to watch the play The Odd Couple by Evam. Well after a series of warnings, they join me.
Kavitha : If the play is no good, i'll trash you DINESH !!!
Aparna : Ya di, good that you warned him !!!
And then what happened ? They enjoyed the play more than me, bursting out laughing even at odd scenes. But ofcourse what made Kavitha come readily was the photograph i promised her, she wanted to take a pic with Karthik (remember Alaipayuthey - Naan ok eh, ok illiya ?). Karthik is the co founder of Evam and one of the lead actors in it and he was more than ready for the pic, which made the day for Kavitha. After going home Aparna messaged me that she dint expect the evening to be so good. And Aparna is this girl who is intersted in all such peppy things and she sees more to life than anyone else. Well it made her day too. My collars are up. Ashwin who promised to spend this saturday with us dint turn up. Thirinthitaano ?
Kavitha : If the play is no good, i'll trash you DINESH !!!
Aparna : Ya di, good that you warned him !!!
And then what happened ? They enjoyed the play more than me, bursting out laughing even at odd scenes. But ofcourse what made Kavitha come readily was the photograph i promised her, she wanted to take a pic with Karthik (remember Alaipayuthey - Naan ok eh, ok illiya ?). Karthik is the co founder of Evam and one of the lead actors in it and he was more than ready for the pic, which made the day for Kavitha. After going home Aparna messaged me that she dint expect the evening to be so good. And Aparna is this girl who is intersted in all such peppy things and she sees more to life than anyone else. Well it made her day too. My collars are up. Ashwin who promised to spend this saturday with us dint turn up. Thirinthitaano ?
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