Cast: Sudhir Pandey, Vijay Maurya, Heeba Shah and D. Santhosh
Language : Hindi
It’s Friday already and it’s the day of the week when the list of movies is updated on sites like bookmyshow.com, pvrcinemas.com (it’s updated every Thursday... or to be precise after 11.00 hrs :-) ) and adlabscinemas.com. These are the sites which primarily constitute my credit card bills.
Yet again no new hindi movies in the list, thanks to the exams time when producers and distributors are more happy delaying the releases. At this point in time other entertainment options available were, english movie or a play. Yes, plays have caught my attention recently and I am very grateful to Atlee for arranging the tickets to a play titled “Sa Hi Besura” @ SVKM’s Bhaidas hall, Juhu.
I was initially excited about this play because of the director, Makrand deshpande. Makrand is undoubtedly an actor par excellence who has acted in movies like RGV’s Satya(my all time favorite hindi movie), RGV’s Jungle, Vishal Bhardwaj’s Makdee and many more.
The play revolves around the lead character, Saketnath (Sudhir pandey) narrating how he tries to come back to the world of theatre since his last performance in the play “Sa Hi Besura” where he has a nervous breakdown . His daughter Roshni (Heeba Shah) helps him with the rehearsals and Mohit (Vijay maurya) tries to convince saketnath for the role of his son (sagar) in the play. The serious drama between the Saket and his daughter continues till they are interrupted by mohit. The play swings to an utterly hilarious mood when mohit tries to mimic the great bollywood actors to showcase his acting and 'reacting' talent.
Sudhir pandey as a veteran thespian has done a remarkably wonderful job switching adeptly between serious and humorous sequences. The lead role is supported by terrific performance from vijay maurya. Vijay has literally made the audience laugh to death with his versatile histrionics. Heeba has done justice to her role as a helpless daughter. Santhosh has done a great job in a comic cameo.
The riveting background score by shailendra barua and sets add more life to the narration. All in all I would say it’s a must watch play which is bundled as a complete entertainer.
And guess who else apart from me.. :-).. has recommended watching “The Lives of Others”... Its makrand deshpande himself.. :-)
3 comments:
awesome kili.
I myself didnt knw it would be such a good one!
Aur makrand ne tujhe pehchaana kya?
did u get a chance to talk to the actors
Its a master piece, exhibiting some great direction work by Makrand and put into performance by one and only 'Vijay'. Vijay has stolen the focus and accolodates in the entire play, and acted with stunning sense of timimg that can be compared to those of Bollywood comedy greats like Paresh Rawal and Akshay Kumar. All the actors coplement each other well resulting in one of the best theatre performances, whch gives you a stomach ache with all the laughing.
I watched it in June 2007 @Prithvi theatre, Mumbai. I read that these guys are performing on 24-07-2008 again. Dont miss it anyone. I would have definitel caught it if I were in Bombay. I am eagery waiting to watch this play again whenever I visit India next.
A 10/10
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