The night before the show the dress rehearsal was good and the sets people worked on the craftings the entire night. The name for the play was not decided until we had to record the announcement piece just 4 days before the show. Practises would start anytime between 9 - 12 pm and would go on for 2-3 hours minimum. All of us have completely different day-to-day jobs and so have other (and I think better) things to do, so noone was able to do any homework on this. With every such change, we were gaining more confidence. But towards the last few days of the practise, we decided to give a completely different twist to the story. There was no conclusive end to this story and initially we decided to just leave it open. The initial concept was just about, 2 people coming back from 2 different and mutually exclusive futures. This was new, everyone contributed with creative ideas and to everyone's surprise, things were working. The story required to disappear characters from the stage and a time machine that would have some flashy lights n music when on the stage. I just cant imagine the pressure of all this on the director, sujay.īut Everyday, we would make some good progress either on the script, music pieces, sets or actors being able to get the feel for the play. Almost everyday, we (actors) would have to start mugging new lines. Every day, someone would come up with a good point and pramod will sit n incorporate the changes. On top of everything, the script was still evolving.
The main actors had lot of work to make sure sci-fi concepts reach the audience in its right intention. We knew making a Sci-fi requires a lot of technicalities and perfect execution of those. At the end of the meeting, everyone was so much thrilled and involved that we all knew that this meeting was the trigger.īy the time actual practises started, we had only 2 weeks left for our slot in the competition.
The discussion went on for about 4 hours that night, and we came up with a little bit detailed sequence of scenes/events. At one point, it was a complete chaos, then the guyz just decided to stop, but their wives were shouting supporting their hubby's point. Lot of questions were asked, and interestingly people had different answers to all of them. The basic plot was explained atleast 10 times between 15 of us. Some of us thought it does not make sense at all, some of us had clarifications. Most of us just lost it somewhere in the middle. Pramod read the script and each one in the meeting reacted in a completely different manner. In the first theme discussion meeting that I attended pramod had written a short story from the concept that was on their mind. This year it was a fantastic Sci-Fi concept from Sujay n pramod. The reason or rather, the trigger for all of us every year is different. Like every year, it takes a while to get people to come together as everyone would crib about the amount of work they already have. I have been in bangalore for 5 years now and have not missed a single chance to participate. Come gaNeshotsav, all yuva members get together to put up a play for a marathi one act play competition held by Maharashtra mandal bangalore.
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