Friday, 19 March 2010
Nearing completion !
March 06.& 07
Kailashnath gets heated up! We are nearing the deadline 27 march and we had only 3 weekends from now to rehearse and reach perfection. Kailashnath was still a mystery to me though he reminded me in many ways especially that of getting excited immediately for anything and everything. His impulsiveness was sometime like me. And so i have finally begun discovering kailashnath. Im yet to discover the innocence of his love with madhumati.
The opening scene has a song from the film awara “ek do teen aaja mausam hai rangeen...” this song is a very important song and we were jus not getting it right. There is something that we lacked. And that was chemistry. We just were not in sync. We were too caught up with the steps. I also started believing that we needed to plan some things in the song to do like plans our moves or choreograph them But our DIR sachin didn’t believe in planning it and. Its actually becoming slightly monotonous after a while. I was getting desperate that we crack this. in the noon the other group members joined in and we had our regular sessions of scene building. This time we didn’t have the character playing kailashnath’s mother hence the scenes were not really fine tuned.
I was still struggling to get into the skin of kailashnath. For a moment i thought i cant do this.
But i could also sense that the more no of times i and sangeetha practiced the better we got( though sachin felt we didn’t get it rather he told us we only got about 10% of what he was looking for. This sure left me confused as i really didn’t know what he was expecting.
Though i now started discovering kailashnath i had long way to go. Nevr felt acting was so difficult for the first time.
The next day we started a fresh again. Today too we didn’t have my mother ( character ) we were also to bring our costumes and other props for the play. We got them this actually helped us understanding the exact amount of time we will be needing on the stage. We began assembling scenes again and today we were joined by two more members of the group Karthik and Robert.they were madhumati’s brothers this was the whole team that would finally go on to make kailashnath weds madhumati on stage.
I was getting excited but at the same time was worried about our performances as i felt we weren’t doing well and was binging to feel that sachin too was feeling the same . i only had heard we need to work a lot and this was actually worrying me not the amount of work but the lack of time. We had just 3 weekends including today’s day.
We again ran over the whole scene sequence and got the feel of the stuff but again as i said before we got to know we had loads to do ahead of us. To top it all though i was feeling positive we somehow will make it i was getting worried. Of how actually this was going to happen.
I meditated but each time i felt i was getting closer the reaction of sachin was not promising for me though.
We could not again do the scenes with my mother as this was again one more cause of worry. For me.
Last two days have been hectic but i was giving my best ( except that the results were not promising ) that to the initial song sequence it was just not getting anywhere.)
We also discussed kudiattiyam and this time i realised that kudiyattiam details were indeed much more that i actually thought it would be
But honestly the play was worrying me more that anything else.
I’m just hoping we some crack this code.
Kailashnath gets heated up! We are nearing the deadline 27 march and we had only 3 weekends from now to rehearse and reach perfection. Kailashnath was still a mystery to me though he reminded me in many ways especially that of getting excited immediately for anything and everything. His impulsiveness was sometime like me. And so i have finally begun discovering kailashnath. Im yet to discover the innocence of his love with madhumati.
The opening scene has a song from the film awara “ek do teen aaja mausam hai rangeen...” this song is a very important song and we were jus not getting it right. There is something that we lacked. And that was chemistry. We just were not in sync. We were too caught up with the steps. I also started believing that we needed to plan some things in the song to do like plans our moves or choreograph them But our DIR sachin didn’t believe in planning it and. Its actually becoming slightly monotonous after a while. I was getting desperate that we crack this. in the noon the other group members joined in and we had our regular sessions of scene building. This time we didn’t have the character playing kailashnath’s mother hence the scenes were not really fine tuned.
I was still struggling to get into the skin of kailashnath. For a moment i thought i cant do this.
But i could also sense that the more no of times i and sangeetha practiced the better we got( though sachin felt we didn’t get it rather he told us we only got about 10% of what he was looking for. This sure left me confused as i really didn’t know what he was expecting.
Though i now started discovering kailashnath i had long way to go. Nevr felt acting was so difficult for the first time.
The next day we started a fresh again. Today too we didn’t have my mother ( character ) we were also to bring our costumes and other props for the play. We got them this actually helped us understanding the exact amount of time we will be needing on the stage. We began assembling scenes again and today we were joined by two more members of the group Karthik and Robert.they were madhumati’s brothers this was the whole team that would finally go on to make kailashnath weds madhumati on stage.
I was getting excited but at the same time was worried about our performances as i felt we weren’t doing well and was binging to feel that sachin too was feeling the same . i only had heard we need to work a lot and this was actually worrying me not the amount of work but the lack of time. We had just 3 weekends including today’s day.
We again ran over the whole scene sequence and got the feel of the stuff but again as i said before we got to know we had loads to do ahead of us. To top it all though i was feeling positive we somehow will make it i was getting worried. Of how actually this was going to happen.
I meditated but each time i felt i was getting closer the reaction of sachin was not promising for me though.
We could not again do the scenes with my mother as this was again one more cause of worry. For me.
Last two days have been hectic but i was giving my best ( except that the results were not promising ) that to the initial song sequence it was just not getting anywhere.)
We also discussed kudiattiyam and this time i realised that kudiyattiam details were indeed much more that i actually thought it would be
But honestly the play was worrying me more that anything else.
I’m just hoping we some crack this code.
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
progress & transformation
20 feb 2010
Another new day . This day started with great confusion which went on till the next day. I have always been extremely particular with regards to time. Be it at work or at home. I value time both mine as well as others.
My session to chilsag started with this confusion ( got a mail saying that the rehearsals were on both Saturday and Sunday though the Sunday timing was not mentioned. I was getting late for the rehearsals and so hurried especially because i had to travel nearly 20 kms to get to rehearsals.
I reached the place right on the dot. Only to find there were no rehearsals happening. Some other group was practicing. I called up the director and got to know that there had been some miscommunication in the mail that was sent.
Well again i realised the importance of communication today. Moreover the importance of right communication. though this freaked me out a bit this didn’t put off my passion to do the play.
I went home and got the meetings rescheduled for Saturday evening. And wrapped up loads of work for Saturday itself.
Next day the rehearsals were at 9.30. so i got ready at around 8am and started a fresh... at around 9.15 i was just reaching the venue feeling gud to be before time as usual. I got a call saying that we meet at 10.30am.
Honestly i wanted to return back. Nevertheless i didn’t do that i didn’t want anything, any situation to rule my decision to do theatre. Not even myself. I went ahead got relaxed and eased my memory before i get back to do my rehearsals.
Gud for us sachin arrived at 10 am sharp we then rehearsed and it was no looking back.
We were given scripts , we in sense me and sangeetha strangely we were the only two of us at the rehearsals ..i didn’t get the point why others were not at the rehearsals. It actually didn’t matter because we got straight to our rehearsals and i wasn’t wasting my time.
i realised many things today during our rehearsals. I needed to get connected with the character before i got into my dialogues and acting stuff. But the character was still not making an impact on me. Now when analysed i realised that its important for me to first understand what the character is originally like in sense what type of person is he ( eg active,lazy, clean, messy,slow, fast his mannerisms, his gestures, his attitude in life in general, his perception of his would be wife ( madhumati ) etc etc..
i needed to discover kailashnath soon .
It was important for me to establish this before i got into his skin. How i do it is is another aspect. May be i need to follow my instincts for this. But i realised the importance of getting the details of this character
After lunch we got back and the others joined in there were many people many were new for me. This is the first time we were as a whole group .we did many exercises many of which i knew the purpose of the exercises.
It was more of group building, trust and improvisation skills that we were sharpening.
Sachin was actually building the skeleton of all the scenes and we just had to give in our best. We were actually now divided into groom’s family and bride’s family members. The feel of marriage and festivity just plunged into the room from nowhere the sessions got loads of energy and the music that was used was totally “ DRAMEBAAZ” in local language and i loved it especially the feel of family reunion with background song of “kyon ke saans be kabhi bahu thi” freak this was the last thing that i would have expected. But is soon realised how this music had actually brought together many families in together jus to watch this soap opera. This also reminded me of a TED TALK series which recently happened at mysore. Here Sashi Taroor speaks of india being so popular because of its pluralist secular image and here he speaks of this soap opera “ kyon ki “ being so were famous in AFGHANISTAN that people actually rescheduled wedding reception timings based on this serial timings which was translated and telecasted in their nation.
Now i know the reason behind its popularity. J
Well we ended this session positively and i needed to work harder. I also needed to get more information about "kudiyattam" it started getting more and more interesting as i had previously known very little about this art from which is part of our rich cultural heritage. I personally want to increase my knowledge by adding information about this into my memory.
I’m looking forward to finish this play with loads and loads of experience. in fact this experience of writing this journal in itself is an experience.
Another new day . This day started with great confusion which went on till the next day. I have always been extremely particular with regards to time. Be it at work or at home. I value time both mine as well as others.
My session to chilsag started with this confusion ( got a mail saying that the rehearsals were on both Saturday and Sunday though the Sunday timing was not mentioned. I was getting late for the rehearsals and so hurried especially because i had to travel nearly 20 kms to get to rehearsals.
I reached the place right on the dot. Only to find there were no rehearsals happening. Some other group was practicing. I called up the director and got to know that there had been some miscommunication in the mail that was sent.
Well again i realised the importance of communication today. Moreover the importance of right communication. though this freaked me out a bit this didn’t put off my passion to do the play.
I went home and got the meetings rescheduled for Saturday evening. And wrapped up loads of work for Saturday itself.
Next day the rehearsals were at 9.30. so i got ready at around 8am and started a fresh... at around 9.15 i was just reaching the venue feeling gud to be before time as usual. I got a call saying that we meet at 10.30am.
Honestly i wanted to return back. Nevertheless i didn’t do that i didn’t want anything, any situation to rule my decision to do theatre. Not even myself. I went ahead got relaxed and eased my memory before i get back to do my rehearsals.
Gud for us sachin arrived at 10 am sharp we then rehearsed and it was no looking back.
We were given scripts , we in sense me and sangeetha strangely we were the only two of us at the rehearsals ..i didn’t get the point why others were not at the rehearsals. It actually didn’t matter because we got straight to our rehearsals and i wasn’t wasting my time.
i realised many things today during our rehearsals. I needed to get connected with the character before i got into my dialogues and acting stuff. But the character was still not making an impact on me. Now when analysed i realised that its important for me to first understand what the character is originally like in sense what type of person is he ( eg active,lazy, clean, messy,slow, fast his mannerisms, his gestures, his attitude in life in general, his perception of his would be wife ( madhumati ) etc etc..
i needed to discover kailashnath soon .
It was important for me to establish this before i got into his skin. How i do it is is another aspect. May be i need to follow my instincts for this. But i realised the importance of getting the details of this character
After lunch we got back and the others joined in there were many people many were new for me. This is the first time we were as a whole group .we did many exercises many of which i knew the purpose of the exercises.
It was more of group building, trust and improvisation skills that we were sharpening.
Sachin was actually building the skeleton of all the scenes and we just had to give in our best. We were actually now divided into groom’s family and bride’s family members. The feel of marriage and festivity just plunged into the room from nowhere the sessions got loads of energy and the music that was used was totally “ DRAMEBAAZ” in local language and i loved it especially the feel of family reunion with background song of “kyon ke saans be kabhi bahu thi” freak this was the last thing that i would have expected. But is soon realised how this music had actually brought together many families in together jus to watch this soap opera. This also reminded me of a TED TALK series which recently happened at mysore. Here Sashi Taroor speaks of india being so popular because of its pluralist secular image and here he speaks of this soap opera “ kyon ki “ being so were famous in AFGHANISTAN that people actually rescheduled wedding reception timings based on this serial timings which was translated and telecasted in their nation.
Now i know the reason behind its popularity. J
Well we ended this session positively and i needed to work harder. I also needed to get more information about "kudiyattam" it started getting more and more interesting as i had previously known very little about this art from which is part of our rich cultural heritage. I personally want to increase my knowledge by adding information about this into my memory.
I’m looking forward to finish this play with loads and loads of experience. in fact this experience of writing this journal in itself is an experience.
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