Dec 24, 2008 04:38 PM
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This is the 4th or the 5th play that I have seen, so I may be not competent enough to REVIEW a Play, so this is not much of a REVIEW, as it is a RECO! Rahul daCunha’s *Chaos Theory *has been written by Anuvab Pal, who has previously written the play *The President Is Coming *and the movie Loins of Punjab Presents. I loved the movie LOINS of PUNJAB, so had gone in with high expectations,
And to my suprise, This play even suprassed those expectations!
The play**captures the peculiar(for lack of any other word) relationship between two middle-aged professors at Harvard who have known each since their student days at St. Stephen’s College in New Delhi. The play is set in the present time, but most of the scenes are flashes from the past. The backgroud music used takes you right back to that era,
The 2 main protognist are Sunita played by Anahita Uberoi and Mukesh played by Zafar Karachiwala!
Sunita and Mukesh are intellectual equal, but as Mukesh is emotionally more distant. Sunita is independent, witty. The play follows their lives and loves over the decades.
The chemistry they share is just superb, and you tend to immediately connect to either one of them, depending upon the type of person you are!
The comedy is not comic per say, but WITTY, SARCASTIC, sometimes even DRY! this is exactly how I like it!
There is a scene in which Sunita asks Mukesh that if he is having an affair with his student, to which Mukesh answers "YES, but its purely "Plutonic" which he later clarifies as "We start of by discussing PLATO. and then its basically GIN AND TONIC"
There are many more of such witty dialogues and comebacks lines! throughout the play, that one feels like taking down notes while watching the play so that we can read it later!
"chaos theory" in terms of defination states that two particles can exist into infinity, surrounding each other without actually ever connecting”, what the director has done is instead of particles he has put people in the situtation and shown that these 2 people spend their lifetime together without committing to love!
The saddest moments are when they come closest to saying ‘I love you’ but never do. also when Sunita's Husband'Amit' comes back to take Sunita and says "Come back its time" Mukesh looks away from Sunita and says "It probably is"
To SUM UP! Chaos Theory, depending on what your state of mind, or what kind of a person you are, you are either about to watch a tragedy with a splash of the comic or a roaring comedy with blocks of sadness, ”
