Better love than never

How do the dynamics change when friendship becomes love?
A collegial banter, understood rudeness, traded familiar insults, inside jokes, common friends and physical comfort guide close friendships-love, I think makes that guarded and wary and also insecure. There are, in addition, the notions of fidelity and commitments. Friends don8217;t need that but if they end up spending a lifetime together, as Mukesh and Sunita do in the play.

Which factors in the play would draw the audience?
Those who have watched the play say they have had some sort of a relationship similar to the principal characters, Mukesh and Sunita a lifelong romance without the realisation of it, so I8217;m assuming identification. And of course humour, conversations about literature, college lives, and the meaning of academia, great 80s music.

When you updated the script from a one-act play, what are the elements did you include to expand it?
The play was written in two parts. The first was a 20-minute scene of their lives over one evening. And the second was when you visited their lives over in important events through the 60s, 70s and 80s. Once the past scenes started coming together, the present seemed repetitive. And yet it was important for the present to reflect their banter, so the tough task was to balance a night of chat and scotch drinking with flashbacks of their lives while trying to push the plot forward. Full credit to Rahul Da Cunha director for seeing that in the play and actually bringing out the dramatic action.

Would write a sequel of Chaos Theory to show how they carry the relationship forward?
I don8217;t think a sequel after Chaos will work because it ends where it ends. Otherwise it could keep going like Hollywood movies. No one would watch Chaos-The Dark Knight for example.

What next on your plate after Chaos Theory?
I8217;m thinking about a play about money, in the style of a David Mamet play. Actually I8217;m also thinking about a trilogy-one about money, one about politics and one about bureaucracy.

Chaos Theory will be staged at Prithvi Theatre on September 30, October 1 and 2