Saturday, February 19, 2011

folk media!



Theatre is a strong impact media. It makes you think. Almost after an year of the performance my college class it was the junior batch at college performing today. I would say I loved it. Students with no formal training just a self exploration workshop of 3-4 weeks performed. I don't know performances but two things which according to me are really very hard. One delivering a humorous dialogue and actually make people laugh and the other would be to deliver emotions and importantly make that emotions reach to the audience. 


Witnessed today with beautiful performance with emotional quotient of Devashree and Naman and Jinith on the humor quotient. Remembered the performances by Kalpeshbhai, Priyanka, Himadri and Kushan from last year. 

Folk media! Yes.. there is definitely something in it!

(from the archives of March 2009)

There are few things in life which I don't like.
Acting.
I never liked it. I always thought I am not a person of theatres nor I can play someone which I am not.

Theatre workshop of my masters course in media culture made it mandatory for me Act. If not for myself or anyone else for heavy weight 30 marks which it carried.
I tried out every possible way to slip out to get in some other thing but nothing worked.
No Options left.

A small role (to the extent that Megha's dint even know that I was in the play) had to be played.
So many rehearsals I did. I am really thankful for the patience my team had and  to bear all my "natakpanti".

We performed at 4 different places and believe it wasnt that bad too! :)
I realised that I am liking it. I was getting better. I was trying to understand the audience taste and also change my dialogues accordingly ( ideally which is not right) and dhire dhire I started loving it and now I am open to try out more of it.
I guess everything what we believe we cant or dont want to do should be given a try.
If we dont like it even after trying it,  its a different issue but a try can help you in opening up new avenues for yourself!

I just opened one for myself! :)