The ultimate Agency problem
( हिंदी में समीक्षा के लिए - यहाँ क्लिक करके क्रम सं. 53 देखिए )
This play is a miniature of social dynamic of today's world. Everyone has some sort of shortcoming for which he has to take help of another for achieving the purpose. The other person has in turn his own shortcoming and he is similarly taking recourse to someone else for achieving his objective. Simultaneously there is an interplay of clashing interests which is typically called agency problem. Agency problem means the person who takes along your work is more interested in his own interest than that of his client.
There are dashing three friends each suffering from a physical handicap. One is deaf, another is dumb and the third one is blind. They three cooperate each other in every work. They all fall in love with the same girl. And the whole play weaves the detailed comedy of how they communicate their love message to the beloved with the help of another one who is himself interested in marrying the same girl. See, how it looks like.
It so happened that when the deaf boy proposed to the girl the girl replied something but the deaf boy could not hear it so he explored another means to convey. He now wants to see the reaction of the girl visually how she reacts over it. So he records his message in a tape recorder with the help of his dumb friend. But in it after the introductory prelude just at the moment his love proposal begins, his dumb friend starts making noise loudly to black out the love message of his contender. And you could imagine how the girl would have reacted after listening to this spoiled message on the tape recorder. But as the deaf is unable to hear he is wondering why his beloved did not like his love proposal.
Similarly when the dumb wanted to convey his love message to the girl the deaf friend was readily available to help. So, the scene moved on like this. The dumb guy is conveying his love poem in his sign language which is being translated in sound by the deaf friend. But at the nick of hour when the vital part of love proposal comes he changes the words adversely and blotches his efforts.
The whole play is a series of innumerous such comic instances threaded together neatly in the form of a coherent story. In the climax the girl choses a handicap chap to marry but who is the fortunate one? This is to be seen in the theatre hall.
On each and every move of this play you are bound to burst in laughter. The noticeable point is that you are not laughing at someone's disability but on his special ability of outpacing others of the same category. Cancellation of one's special ability is made through another one's special ability and this way the playwright cleverly succeeds in avoiding moral dilemma of the audience whether he should laugh or not.
It must have been very challenging for the actors to deliver the genuine gestures of the specially abled persons but they aced their challenges. The deaf man was more vivid with his plump physique and facial expression. The blind man was so dashing notwithstanding his visual impairment and the dumb one gave his true gestures of his own class. The cynosure and darling of all the three heroes was a pretty lass character who lived up with the adequate grace and youthful mannerism. The director has kept every sequence very taut avoiding any sort of flab.
Mayuresh Pem, Vikash Patil, Manmeet Pem and Richa Agnihotri were the actors in the show. Writer and Director of the play is Devendra Pem.
The faces of the relaxed audience were saying that they got their piece of the pie. A totally different genre of comedy!
Review by- Hemant Das ' Him'
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