What is happening to our theatre plays?

I watched two plays recently. The first one “Friends will be Friends" was a utter disaster. This was some kind of movie on stage, with dances in between when its not required. The script was stolen from all the Hindi movies - from Dil Chatha hai to Dilwale dulaniya le jayenge. One of my colleagues walked out for the auditorium by the first half. It looked like one guy had lot of money to spend on and decided to stage a play. Though the actors were good - ultimately it was a bad experience. The second play was by a famous group called Evam “Double Comedy” and this group is known for some good plays called “Chapter Two" etc. And I was all excited and looking forward for a good play. This one too had dances in between, but the difference was it was good music :-). Actors were great, but it really didn’t give me a satisfaction of seeing a good play. Towards the end I wanted to run out of the auditorium. I definitely need to get reviews before I go to the next one, and hope they don’t all head the bollywood way.

Bored @ work

I am basically a little bored at work. Due to the current situation in office I have very little work to do. This will change soon, but I have to get through this current phase. So I keep look and fishing for some unfinished stuff or some work I can do for others. And also keep surfing the net for ideas where I need to keep myself engaged.

I am such a person that I need to keep myself busy… and want to do something which I have not done before or to learn something which will definitely help me as person.

What else can I do?

History

History we make

I just woke up with the thought that what history we making and in a numbers of years ahead what it would read as.

When I read my history in school I remember the periods of reign where there were praises of what people did, how society prospered and what beautiful monuments they built. But was pondering what our future generations will be reading about us.

1990- 2010 (India)

People claimed to be very intelligent, most of them worked on computers or something related to that and were catering to needs all over the world. They built houses which were reaching up to the sky, taking away all the greenery and making concrete jungles. They cut green old trees, and never planted back again for us.

They did not build any great monuments they had some constructions of flyovers which took them decades to build them and they didn’t look great or did they have great value. They broke down some old beautiful structures and build some sad looking big buildings on them. And they were the ones who polluted the cities and encroached agricultural land.

I don’t want to go into politics, I guess its would be the Civics or some other subject to study by choice, it’s not History if that is included here we might have the entire text book for it.

Is this the History we are creating?

Travel

This year has been year of travel for me. I went to Maldives in the month of March, it was an amazing experience seeing the coral and the aqua life and the different shades of blue water. After that it’s been the most memorable and never forgetting travel of my lifetime, till date. I have been to 7 places (London, Northwich, Scotland, Chicago, LA, New York and New Jersey) in 3 weeks and 2 continents. Though I was traveling for work, I made the maximum out of it by trying to squeeze all my weekends to see new places. The favorite among them is Scotland --> its so beautiful with such history and eeriness. And the amazing fun I ever had is in LA at the Universal Studios and the California Adventures -Disney Land. And I did get to see Grand Canyon from the flight, did see it when the sun was going down and it was amazing orange haze, tick marked it for the places seen ;-) ‘I did see it from above not necessary it should be seen at the ground level'. Everyplace I went, I had people back from home or friends there who told me about must sees, things to do and took care of me. I felt at home and didn’t feel any difference when changing time zones. It only hit me hard when I landed back in India and didn’t know what time to sleep and was feeling drowsy all the time. If I could do 7 places in 3 weeks, I think I can cover the world soon... hmmm...