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Two strangers. An airport. A delayed flight. Yes,they get chatting but thats where the cliché ends in the play,Thus Spake Shoorpanakha,So Said Shakuni. Its not the weather,IPL or politics that fill their conversation,but characters from the great Indian epics. As the conversation progresses,the two travellers find themselves undergoing a change,getting transformed into two of the greatest villains of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata,Shoorpanakha and Shakuni respectively . They get into the biographies of these grey characters and,in the process,question how much we really know these villains. The actors change on stage to enact various stages in the lives of Shoorpanakha and Shakuni, says lead actor Oroon Das.
In a play dotted with monologues,Shoorpanakha wonders if Rama was justified in chopping off her nose because she was attracted to him. Shakuni,on his part,recounts how he had been imprisoned by the Kuru rulers and stayed alive only because his brothers would feed him their ration. Thus Spake Shoorpanakha,So Said Shakuni based on Poile Senguptas post-modern text that turns the spotlight on two marginalised characters from Indian mythology,is presented as much as theatre as a performance art. Present on stage with the actors,sound wiz Abhijit Tambe creates live music mixes as the play progresses.
Thus Spake Shoorpanakha,So Said Shakuni will be staged at Islamic Cultural Center on May 4-6
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