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| Aappa Ani Bappa |
| AAPPA ANI BAPPA seems to clearly be the actors’ play in which stalwarts of the Marathi stage like Dilip Prabhavalkar and Vikram Gokhale get to display their time-tested histrionics. The play as such is also about the tumultuous nature of relationships that prevail in the backstage world of the theatre.
So Aappa and Bappa, two actors of the Marathi stage had a very successful run of a play in which they acted together. Although the play did very well, the two actors eventually parted company because things had come to such a pass that they could no longer stand the sight of each other!
Now years later, Aappa’s newphew who also takes care of him wants to revive the play done by his uncle and his once-upon-a-time co-actor for forty-three years, Bappa Ekbote. The play thus takes off from the nephew’s efforts of bringing the two thespians together. What sums up as the essence of the play is the process through which the once parted actors get back together that gives their relationship a new lease of life.
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| Choukon |
| CHOUKON, a two-act Marathi play is the setting for a dance bar and restaurant. Alka Padmakar Paud (Ashwini Ekbote) who adopted the life of a bar girl in order to sustain her family’s financial needs is worried. Her daughter Sayali (Sonalika Joshi) has grown up to be a nurse while her son Sushil (Sachin Suresh) is an Engineering graduate.
The play begins with Alka fearing about what would happen when her grown children find out about the reality of their mother’s profession. When finally the truth is revealed, circumstances have come to such a pass that she has to sacrifice her life to save her son’s.
The play acts as a canvas for a number of other characters who are victims of materialism such as the disillusioned youth Jagdish (Ashish Pawar) and Shekhar (Prashant Chaudappa). They are in awe of a bar girl called Lubna (Snehal Gadekar) whose world is merely dictated by crisp currency notes. The other two characters, papa-the owner of the bar (Durgesh Akerkar) and suspended excise inspector Singh (Sunil Jadhav) demonstrate the thin line between the oppressor and the oppressed. In its attempt to depict the harsh realities of life, the play supposedly contends with several moral and ethical issues along the way.
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| Love Storey |
| She and He...they meet co-incidentally...He is stumped...begins thinking of courting and marrying her...starts designing new plans of trapping her in his love web...But his plans fail. Meanwhile she too is disturbed.... she likes him.... she wants to be with him too...both are faced with the same query ...who should ask first? And so begin a series of funny and entertaining events...
In this love story there are no villains, no interfering parents. And yet its characters and plot make it enjoyable since the head and the heart are constantly in conflict with each other. The makers of the play say that the college going students will smile miscievously and that the older people will elbow each other while watching this comedy.
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| MR. Bappa Mourya Re |
| Styled on Kamal Hasan’s well-known film ‘Appuraja’, MR BAPPA MORYA RE revolves around the three eponymous title characters, whose obvious physical differences such as their heights create comic situations.
Madhu Shinde plays all three characters in what is labelled as a ‘hilarious / rollicking / musical / and a suspense comedy play.’
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| Jawaai Mazaa bhala |
| JAWAI MAAZA BHALA appears to be based on the well-known Steve Martin movie, ‘Father of the Bride’. It depicts the emotional upheaval a father goes through when his daughter is about to be married.
He can slowly see his position in her life being toppled and taken over by some other man. Needless to say, he finds it difficult to accept and cannot even admit it as such.
The tone of the play is light humour. |
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