Recalling the PAST .... Directing a DRAMA

WINNERS Don’t Do Different Things, THEY Do Things Differently. It is a great voyage for me today, when I turn out the pages of my Xavier Academy days and recall all those precious moments spent with my friends, colleagues, juniors, seniors and my honourable teachers, in this past two years. I really commemorate all those classes, events in my college and various personality development programs and functions, which has really helped me a lot today to stand infront of the competitive world.

Though I’ve always been an average student, yet I always had an interest in extra activities, specially in performing dramatics, since, I used to do so in my past school days. Whereas, I never performed in my college as I did not had any peer support to do so. I used to think no body in this college would have an interest in performing a drama. But …..I had to pack-up with my nonsense thoughts soon, as I came to an account with my friends who had much interest in performing a drama. May I call it a co-incident or my luck having being able to meet them..! Whatever is it; was really a whimsical moment of my life. We, as a whole started working as a team and I was given the responsibility to direct the play. Although it was a great task for me to select the characters among many, for the play and appoint their suitable roles accordingly, I really would like to thank all of them for their friendly co-operation without which this team work would not have been succeeded. With a joint venture of The Student Council and some of my friends we came up with an idea of performing it on the day of annual function “ Talent Show ’07”. But we had a confusion about performing the play based on only moral theme or a humorous one. After a long discussion we came up with the decision to perform a humorous one. Then and there I had a base line of the drama and that was none other than Ramayana. One of our team member suggested to make it a bit modern. So the base line of the drama was clear and we titled the drama as “Ramayana Reloaded”.

After this we had to work in giving roles and characters for the correct person in the team for the play. Basically we took all the protagonists of Ramayana excluding our very own Hanuman as no one was convinced to perform with a tail. Having around 8 characters from Ramayana we still had to introduce 10 more characters. So, we decided to appoint those 10 characters from Mahabharata and movies that hit the most countdown at that moment, to give a flavour of modernization. When this task and story line was completed, we had to write script which was not that very difficult task, as everyone had their unique ideas. Infact, personally, I was enjoying myself when my colleagues would tickle my funny bones with their comedy dialogues. I could imagine Dasarath entering the stage with his three wives in the beat of “Om Shanti Om”, Sita stepping up with the track like “ Crazy kiya re” and Ram singing “ Hare Ram Hare Ram Hare Krishna Hare Ram”.

Basically this drama was a set where Sita was taking an audition for her appropriate husband. To give the audition people like Ram along with Lakshman, Rawan, Cine stars like Dharmendra, Rajesh Hamal, Duryodhan etc had made their presence. But as a fact Ram battles Rawan for Sita. This was not the end of our reloaded, as Dasarath finds another girl for him which brings another twist in our drama. The moment when Draupadi performs dance to entertain people, Duryodhan comes up and starts the “ Vastraharan Scene” from Mahabharat which was a memorable scene of the play. While the another breath taking scene was when Rawan was compelled to have crush on Manjolika when the Bhool Bhulaiya scene was introduced.

With this I not only enjoyed myself but also learn many things like leadership, adjusting with new people etc. I still can’t stop my lips widening and burst in laughter when I remember about the drama which we had performed. “We meet to create memories and depart to cherish them.” It was a great pleasure for me to meet all these wonderful people in Xavier Academy. All those memories spent with everyone will always be fresh and alive through out my whole life. We really had a great time while practicing for it. Though it was not professional, but everyone of us had given our best to it. Anyways, I’m really gonna miss all those awesome days which will really bring tears in my eyes. And as everyone knows, “Memories are really very amazing. It makes us laugh when we remember those moments when we had cried together. And makes us cry today when we remember those moments when we had laughed together.”