thank u for the wishes on my play. i do expect our other members of the groupe turn up for the show, it will be ideal to meet u, whoever is in town.
well, as regrads the staging of ps couple of years back, i very much watched it. being a ardount fan, i watched it on two days and i like to give a different opinion than what our one other friend has done.
first its wrong to change the screenplay of a work which was written, even for the purpose of suiting. second, few characters (v.thevan, apathuathivgal) were ok others i personally feel, doesn't go by the description, third the play didn't maintain the suspense which our god father maintained from page one to end. i have a strong opinion its a very haphazard attempt without going into further details. well the place in ymca was spacious but that's not sufficient. the lightings were ok, but the music, pl dont mind was pathetic.
the scene of adithya karikalan walking into sambuvaroyar fort, might earn applause, but mr. naser could have exhibited more. well, overall i am not happy with the effort. let me tell one opinion of mine ps can be discussed and can be personally visualised, projecting it needs to be thought twice. its nothing wrong to publicise it in other ways and not by televising or projecting in the wrong manner. well, i hold my opinion on the tv serial til its beemed. if it creates impression fine, what happens if its not projected properly, the new gen will think wheter is it this much only. let's keep our fingers crossed.
i also spoke to few who happens to work in that ps play, they gave me different opinions. but remember the no. of persons it reached is much much low. prob because of the cost, but if it had been planned well,, they would have got enourmous sponsorships ????
if i am to stage ps, i will ask all the characters to read ps for atleast 5 times then atleast one month of discussion cum classroom sessions would have been conducted, the rehearsal would go around atleast 6 to 8 months on a 3 days a week basis (remember for a social play we do atleast 5 months of 3day week rehearsals) then play it foratleast 100 shows.
friends, if u happen to see mani's kannathil u will find few budhha statues which got my memories back to ps and the way god father has dealt with it. amazingly wonderfull.
well when its ps there is lots, we should channelise our discussions in such manner we discuss every month abt particular chapter / area/ character/ situation / etc. for august discussion we should plan in june and leave two months for ourselves to get prepared. think on it. probably at the end of it we would get a wholesome picture and who knows one of us will go in for beeming it, then i beleive it will be a success.
SOME THIN WONDERFULL: intresting my friends, i came across a person who's name is senthan amuthan and he said his parents are great fans of ps. i am yet to meet them but will shortly do so. another intresting but disturbing thing was he has not read ps and doesnt seem to do it