THE JOURNEY OF DAS ICHE...THE "I"

this happened to be another great experience with the drama team which we happily call"the urvasi theatre"....during the fist week of this month,aromal chettan and niyas chettan came up telling us that we have got a chance to stage our "bhopal"at vylopilly samskrithi bhavan....the moment i heard ,i felt ,how come it be possible once again...thats impossible...and on the other hand i had to get through my editing seminar and a bunch of mid sem exams...so i said i cant join...then the next day pramod said that plan has changed in such a way that another drama will be staged...that relieved me coz...atleast becoz of me the oppotunity wont be lost...since its a new one they can manage without me....
then all the exams and the seminars were over..i used to go to see the rehersals which were practically nothing....we all sit down and discuss..discuss endlessly that the days went on....i was there to help tina chechi in the choreography...but instead of aromal chettan coming up with new bodly postures ,nothinng big deal happened.the only thing we all knew was that the drama will be based on body art and physic theatre of which all were ignorant except aromal chettan....i just knew that it will be something based on contemporary dance ..which i have only seen in tv....[remember it was that me who was supposed to help tina chechi]
and then came the friday...december 12th...our senior jayakrishnan wrote the dialogues of satan and eve...and sajid chettan[who joined phd justnow,tinachechi and aromal chettan's classmate in ma] wrote another poem on this....then we realised how powerful our theme is......
its just because of the excellent script that we had by jk that we finally took the risk to do the drama...two days before pramod caught fever..bad fever that he couldn't even stand properly....but then due to the need of the time he was ready to do his part of the shadows along with rahul chettan....
but the eventful friday turned the whole thing upside down...all came in such a way that i finally had to accept his role and he became the voice of satan and kalyani chechi ,eve's voice....the next day was saturday which was second saturday and we dint have place for rehersal...actually it was not rehersal..it was the first step into the play..and finally decided that we will have it at my home...
it was planned that we all will meet at my home at 9.30....but our 9.30 turned to be 11.30 without any thing done for the next day's play....and we had invited everyone of our acquientances....then we started...off with the first part...it went on ..i dont know whether it was great ...but it went on till 5.30 that we finally thought whatever happens on the stage we will do it.....and along with the shadow part of pramod i was made to do a dance as the opening scene to depict the chaos in the universe...
the next day i had to attend one of my childhood friend's engagement which i couldn't miss...i went there..attended and came back with my mother driving in such a way that it almost took her breath off...when i reached vyloppily at 3 something was happening...i dont know if any of us can explain the way we were working.....i just had one chance to see how the stage is...a single rehersal just to synchronise my movements with rahil chettan...coz we had to do the same way
and then the time came 6.30 in the eve...meena mam and hariharan sir came to watch our performance...meena mam was really worried coz she dint know what are we supposed to do on stage.....
it started with my performance.....was it a performance? ..i dont know... i dont remember a single thing which i did there...then the stage was grabbed by our everloving satan ..which was done by aromal chettan....to see him performing it was absolutely mindblowing.....i started admiring satan for that only reason...it dint end there...eve was even more powerfulthey were literally competing on stage...the voices of satan and eve ...it still strikes in my mind...kudos to pramod and kalyani chechi...it was all because of the script that was so good...by jk....
and as always joby...our great stage director managed every technical part that...it was exceptionally nice....people came to the green room to congragulate us...it was all a dream...something which we just cant believe happened in such a short span of time....and 14th december marked the second successful play of the team...which not only improved our skills..but also tightened our bond of friendship.........