Chennai beautifully presents in
its fold, a variety of talents and entertainment to its people. As long as you know how you can keep yourself
enjoying taking the best of both worlds…the traditional, conservative and
cultural flavor or the modern, contemporary and fashionable fiesta. In
this pursuit of happiness, we love watching theatre and encouraging the art and
talent. We strongly believe that the
stage is the lap of Goddess Sarawathi, Mother of Knowledge.
We were very happy to watch Stage
Creations recent play, Neeya Naana,
story written and scripted by S L Naanu.
We were happy to see the hall filled with rasikas at Tag Dakshinamurthy
hall on 7 Aug 2016, Sunday. The day
coincided with the inaugural event of Stage Creations 50th
Anniversary celebrations and unveiling of the logo and the website by none other than another veteran Crazy Mohan sir.
The play by the group of theatre
Jambavan (Veteran Artist) Sri Kathadi Ramamurthy Sir. Neeya Naana had a touching theme that
dominates the social fabric of today …especially touching the ordinary middle
class families and the live wires of joint family system with on and off the
same today. The play takes you through
ordinary regular day to day circumstances, and tickles you with simple charms
of a family that is dominated by insecurities, anxieties and disappointment on
expectations. Humour takes it realm
without even trying to work hard and we can see the roars of laughter and claps
from the happy audience.
The ease with which the cast has
performed shows the efforts that went into the recital sessions. It is not easy to do a family comedy genre
and its success is highly attributed to the fact that Ramamurty sir plays with
his ease and glory even at this age of 80 years. The play has a strong family story line and
the much deeper comedy sense makes it successful.
The story starts with the marriage
of Sivaraman’s second son’s wedding and post which he keeps insisting that his
son and daughter-in-law to go and live separately fearing the separation at the
later stage in life. Given the
experience with his eldest son Vignesh and daughter in law and the way they
were pulled to court for the property creates a havoc in the mind of the elder Sivaraman. The
story goes around how the new daughter-in-law proves not only to be smart, but
also very caring and understanding and fills in the vacuum in their lives. The bet between them for an year and how the
things unfold during this period is rest of the story.
The play is directed and written
by S L Naanu. Produced by Bobby and
Jhonny, who are physically no more in this world, but glad they remain ever
alive in the stage as they get their placeholder in the cast and crew list of
the drama. Kudos to the team for this
sense of gratitude and humility.
Probably one of the best comedy
plays this year and undoubtedly will fetch few awards for their cast. The comedic timing about Kathadi sir shows
his experience with ease. Lavanya
Venugopal and Geetha as daughter in law and wife of Sivaraman did an amazing
job. I am only proud that Lavanya
happens to be my friend in Inner Wheel as well. SBI Murali as Dr Mani and Srinivasan as
Google Search Giri and Naanu himself as Madhu did a fabulous job.
Being in the theater arena, the
sets by Saidai kumar comes as no surprise.
Simple and elegant and make up of artists are also to the point. Lights, music and back stage coordination
were at its best. Subbu’s music added a
beautiful flavor to the comedy nature of the play and kept it as required
without being too jarring or inconsistent.
The jokes especially when Sivaraman
completes his cataract surgery makes you laugh out loud. The moments where Google search gets into
play are really funny. Overall it was a
friendship day treat. It was worth the
2 hours spent to watch and real stress buster.
Anyone who enjoys theater and especially comedy and wanting a 100%
entertainment should go to watch this play on stage.
I would give this show 4/5 rating
…Truly entertaining.
