Evil-Impaired

Say the words “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil” and one is likely to conjure up an image of three apes…

On Sunday, I had the dubious pleasure of watching apes (albeit of a human kind) doing similarly silly things at Paritossh Painter’s play (titled the same thing) which was playing at Rang Sharda, Bandra on the weekend.

First up, the play stars Nigaar Khan (see below in pic with co-star Pooja Ghai)

Now since I don’t watch Hindi TV (or much of English TV for that matter), I had no clue that both Nigaar Khan & Pooja Ghai are established TV actresses. In fact, I thought Nigaar Khan was Nigar Khan (yes, sue me) of the “deportation” fame… (thx Rishi for pointing out she was sent back to Norway & not Portugal!)

(Nigar Khan)

Well, Nigar or Nigaar, the play couldn’t have been more silly- to quote my friend “it was like a school play” (modesty overtook a little later & suggestions were made that certain school plays were better).

I intensely dislike slapstick & overacting (both of which was in abundance). The play wasn’t a total disaster however - the hearing-impaired Aditya (Paritossh Painter) and the speech-impaired Manav (Jayesh Thakkar) did a brilliant job at getting the laughs (Thakkar simply shone during the play) & even had me laughing out loud several times!

It’s not exactly theatre at it’s finest… in fact it’s quite terrible really - but it still makes for a fun evening out, which is exactly what we had.

Finished off the night with a quiet buffet at Citrus, Leela.

Now on to the long week ahead…