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April 3, 2000 |
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 Hello, what's this? Too
hot, too hot," a gentleman in the audience chuckled. He wasn't the
only one warming up to The Lover, Mumbai girl Raell Padamsee's production
of the Harold Pinter drama at Delhi's India Habitat Centre last week.
Games People Play, an evening of two one-act plays (the other was James
Saunders' Hello! I Love You), gave the capital a different take on
relationships. The Lover also gave the city bedroom scenes much bolder
than Delhi is used to, with Soni Razdan and Aly Khan enacting the saga of
a couple who have problems relating sexually. "But they didn't even
kiss," says a bemused Raell, daughter of Alyque and Pearl Padamsee.
Razdan's tryst with Khan apart, both plays ended up much longer than they
should have been, some wacky lines notwithstanding. In Hello ..., Razdan
asks the character played by Vinay Jain: "Do you see me merely as a
sex object?" Silence. Then, "I object to the word merely."
Clever.
-Anna
M.M. Vetticad
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