We caught the Blue Mug play last night, our first experience with Indian theatre. The play stars Konkona Sen Sharma, Rajat Kapoor, Vinay Pathak, Ranvir Shorey, Sheeba Chaddha and Munish Bharadwaj. The play was about memories and what we make of them.
The play starts with the actors (Rajat Kapoor, Vinay Pathak, Ranvir Shorey, Sheeba Chaddha) recounting some of their childhood memories and other memories through life, some funny and others sad. These monologues were interspersed with dialogues between a doctor (Konkona Sen) and her patient (Ranvir Shorey) who had no memories after the age of 21. The doctor-patient exchange was very sad and funny at the same time. All the actors were brilliant and did a great job on stage.
The way the play ended was a little disappointing to me. Also, I found it a little hard to keep my attention focused on the play for the entire 75 minutes, I found myself drifting back and forth but this has happened before with other plays and musicals that we have been to and may not have had anything to do with this one in particular. A, on the other hand, did not find anything lacking in the play and enjoyed it right through. Both of us did feel that Konkona's role in the play wasn't really meaty and would have liked to see her in a role more substantial.
All that said, it was awesome to see all these actors up so close, especially Konkona Sen!
