FULL MEALS @ ALLIANCE FRANCAISE

I personally prefer comedy and good entertainment for a Sunday evening and my mission was acomplished after watching FULL MEALS by Tahatto.

Tahatto is a 3 years young theater group which came out of the first batch of an Introductory Workshop to Theater Acting called CUT by Evam.

Full Meals serves the audience with a variety of flavors of life in the form of six different short stories or rather circumstances with funny commercials in between and yes some were really hilarious and creative. I was really impressed with the way FULL MEALS was structured. Every story concluded with a nice situational classic hindi movie melody. A nice and simple idea which gave the support team to set up the stage for the next act..very smooth. Good thinking by the director.All in all FULL MEALS has loads of humor. Well timed punch lines and amazing songs. Worth every penny, but the meal is not unlimited. It lasts for 90 hilarious minutes but the taste surely lasts much longer.

From CUT-4 to CUT-1...

Ta Hatto Dhimta Dhimitaka Taga Taga To Dhim Tak Tai!!!

Necessary Targets @ Rangashankara

Today I saw Necessary Targets a play written by Eve Ensler and Directed by Prakash Balewadi. And here I go with my first review of a PLAY.


The play involves a Disaster Specialist (Melissa) and an Urban Psychiatrist (JS) who team up for an assignment which takes them to Bosnia to help the female refugees to cope up with their traumas. What happens next ... Were they successful in their mission... or else, is what the play about...

When I read the plot at www.rangashankara.org, I found the story line decent and but the reason I went for the play was the director. I have seen another play Prakash Balewadi called Copenhagen and that was a brilliant play according to me.

I was impressed with Necessary Targets too. Well I was getting bored in the first 10-15 mins but later when the story started progressing it became more gripping and intense and finished with a nice climax in 90 mins.

Other things which I liked were the original score...The impeccably timed flute and the violin (or double bass I am not sure) pieces were quite magnetic.

The sets were designed well....gave a good feel of the refugee camp.

The only thing I was not impressed with was the exit of the actors... I would have liked if they would have introduced their team and the director and support staff.

So all in all I would give this 3/5 and definitely worth a watch.

Cheers