An epidemic of mannequins
Ok so its been a long time since i rock and rolled but then life's been kinda hectic. And then you really dont feel like doing much else when you have 2 adorable nephews around to play with also now do you :)Last few weeks included a nice looong trip to Delhi, in which i had hoped that i would get to taste the Delhi winter after ages...but alas it was not to be. Damn that global warming, i think i better put in my lot with Al Gore after all this.
Coming back to Hyderabad is always a pain given the nature of the city, but coming back to the prospect of 10 hour workdays, shitty food and zero social life after a vacation where you literally got breakfast in the bed was a little painful. The bright sparks in Hyderabad are few and far between but when some of them come up you outta grab em with both hands. I was unfortunate enough to miss a Zero show in Hyderabad( for the unintiated Zero is one of the better Indian bands, for any doubts listen to an instrumental of theirs called "Christmas in July", i had the good fortune of catching them live a few times in Delhi,Bangalore and Bombay and man they rock) but when i heard that there was a nice play about to be staged in Hyderabad i decided that that was an opportunity not to be missed. The play was titled " Hamlet - an original spoof" done by this group of people from Chennai called evam. A little apprehension crept in since I dont know squat about Hamlet, but then i said to myself "why not" and decided to go and watch this play. So the plan was rolled out, a saturday evening it was to be, spent in an auditorium and i was to come out all the more wiser about some Shakespeare fundaes.
So i reached the audi and grabbed some nice seats and was kicking myself for not having attended some more plays in Hyderabad, cuz the female population was actually overwhelming. The play started just about in time and these guys started off with some nice covers ( is that a word that you can use in the context of a play??) of some Monty Python episodes. They didn't cover my favourite MP episode( "The ministry of funny walks" :-) ) But they did do the petshop owner and the dead parrot one and they did do it quite well so i was more than happy. Post interval they informed, would be the actual Hamlet spoof so i was left wondering as to how they can do a Shakespearean play in 45 mins, but then bigger things have happened in lesser time so i laid my mind to rest and watched as the post interval session began. And what a session it was. Those guys transformed the usual boring Shakespeare stuff into an interactive in house spoof, where they got in people from the audience to come up on stage and do some theatrics and it turned out to be a whole lot of fun. The 3 guys had quite a wacky stage presence and it kept the audience more than enthralled and more importantly laughing their collective ass off, so all in all it was an evening well spent.
On the music front here's a list of songs of the top of my head for the moment, that you should give a listen to:
1. Madonna - get together ( off her new album....sooooper track)
2. Stone Sour - Through the glass( this is Corey Taylor of Slipknot's side project. An awesome power ballad of sorts. The whol album is worth a listen actually.)
3. Atif Aslam - Tere Bin ( of the OST of "Bas Ek Pal"....a very hummable ditty)
Current Music: Messhugah - Organic Shadows
posted by Nitish @ 1:29 AM
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