Me and my Cousin Pavan did not have any work to do this evening so we decided to watch a play at Ranga shankara. When i went there to get tickets around 6:00 PM, i saw the poster that it was for kids aged 10+. I called Pavan to reconfirm if we were really so jobless to see a Play for kids in Hindi. He said we shall go. Also this was the first Hindi play we were watching at Ranga shankara.
When i asked for the tickets, i was given two tickets and asked to pay 300 rupees. I thought to myself that this play better be good since we are spending 300 rupees to watch a Hindi play for kids.
Pavan, for a change came to my house before time and we went to Ranga Shankara well ahead of schedule. So we decided to go to the theater and take a "Pretty" seat (near pretty people). But as usual Bad luck. Forget pretty people, there were hardly any people. Theater was just about half full.(Normally we go just in time and miss occupying "pretty" seats.)
The review said that anyone who had an invisible friend in their childhood is sure to enjoy this comic play. I never had an invisible friend but thoroughly enjoyed the play. It was truly a masterpiece. Acting by kids was exemplary, Music was outstanding. Story was superb. All in all fantastic.
The story is about Ira aged about 14 and her imaginary friend (in her childhood) Manu who lives beneath Ira's bed (Bedke Neeche Rehnewali) .The story starts from Manu crawling from beneath Ira's bed and reading Ira's personal dairy. Manu reads about Ira's boyfriend Gynanesh who is called roger by Ira. Ira's brother Chintu joins her and enjoys reading his sister's personal dairy. Then enters Ira totally annoyed by what is happening. She does not recognize Manu and complains to her mom that Manu is a stranger. The whole sequence is marvelously enacted by three kids and one must see the play to enjoy it. It is impossible for a bad writer like me to describe the scene.
Ira makes repeated complaints to her mother that Manu is a stranger and she does not know how she came into her room. But Manu repeatedly insists that she knows Ira and has been staying beneath her bed for a very long time. But Ira's mom does not take it seriously and in fact likes Manu. She leaves the scene asking the kids to play. Here Manu tells Ira about the latter's birthday, the night when Ira got scared about the ghost, about Ira's conversation with her mother about her career. Ira gets perplexed about how this stranger knows so much about her. Manu repeats that she is her friend and they used to share everything. Ira gets flummoxed and cries for her mother. Again Mother does not take things seriously.
Ira then gets scared of Manu and asks her mother to drive manu away. So Ira's mother(forgot the name) calls the police. When the policeman makes his entry into the scene, all the other characters will be dancing and the policeman is forced to join them. The policeman tries to convince Manu that she was lost in some stampede and her parents were looking for her. She refuses to believe. When Manu is dragged by the policeman, she escapes and goes under the bed and disappears.
Manu is an imaginary (abstract) character in this play. Ira will be sharing all her secrets with her imaginary friend manu in her childhood. As Ira gets older, like her toys, she puts Manu also beneath her bed and forgets her.
The play ends with Ira writing in her dairy about the next day's date with Gyanesh.As she pens down her excitement about the next day, she feels something missing. She remembers Manu and is filled with nostalgia. Manu crawls from beneath the bed and makes Ira comfortable and puts her to sleep.
As i said before, i am hopelessly incapable of writing about this marvelous masterpiece. Three kids Manu,Chintu and Ira performed out of the world. music was Exemplary.,Lighting outstanding and acting truly awesome.
With all my incompetence to write about an excellent piece of art, i have tried to give a gist of the play. Please do see it whenever you get an opportunity. Believe me its really fantastic. Don't miss it.
Interestingly, there were no kids to see this play. Me and my cousin pavan both at 26 were the youngest in the audience.
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