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Issue 24, 2018
Established: 1995
Saturday, November 17th, 2018
*Taken from the song ‘Whisky Lullaby’ by Brad Paisley
whisky lullaby
-Ngukivi Chishi, XI The most awaited event of the Founders’ Celebrations As Tito and Mandy were engrossed in a conversation about at School, The Founders’ English Play lived up yet Raj’s assets(typically) another unusual character entered again to its reputation of excellence. The play started off the play. Parveen Sultana, ex-wife of Raj Chopra who unconventionally as the narrator played by Toko Tato, she had not met in four years and quite clearly missed the arrived on stage and revealed to the audience that this year’s glamorous and dazzling life which she no longer had, no play was not a tragedy based on street children but was matter how much she tried to pretend otherwise. Another in fact a murder mystery. The play revolved around the element to this character that made her a difficult one to rich, famous and eccentric Bollywood producer Prithviraj portray was her tendency to keep fainting at the smallest Chopra’s family and friends, who had a lot to gain from his jolt and thus, who better to portray this character than death. The story began with the entry of Riyaan played by Aakangsha Dutta, new to drama but certainly not to the Subhojit Dasgupta looking for his uncle Raj. The young stage. Just as Parveen visited the washroom and Tito and actor by now has created a niche for himself as a character Mandy continued to chat, the calm of the auditorium was artist with a knack for comedy. The next character to be shattered by an ear splitting scream which brought forth introduced was Tanisha, Raj’s daughter, a self-centered the declaration of the possible murder of the missing Mr. teenager played by Indrani Nandy who spent the entirety Chopra. Just when chaos and confusion reigned supreme, of the play filing her fingernails. A new face to grace Jeremy Jahau as Inspector Taposh Bhatti, made his entry. the English Productions, Indrani played the role like an A known name in the dramatic circuit, Jeremy pulled old hand and was the epitome of a rich, spoilt teenager. off the character of an investigative officer often left in The audience was introduced to Mandira Menon, Raj’s doubt, with élan. As investigations went on with Parveen new girlfriend, an empty headed beauty whose choice of fainting quite frequently and the narrator occasionally fragrance was as strong as her lack of finesse. She drew making an appearance, the cast, cleverly hidden amongst her first round of applause as she swung between her the audience came into play, whose role was to help make insistence of being called ‘Mandy’ to excitedly calling the the progress to the climax, an interactive one. Anushka drawing room ‘a room to draw’ in. Ipshita Kashyap played Baruah and Suryaranjan Sengupta, who seemed to be the character as a natural. The play picked up pace with dissatisfied with almost everything happening constantly the entry of the eccentric and cheerless butler reminiscent interrupted the play encouraging the audience to ask of the legendary Jeeves played brilliantly by Areeq Imran probing questions regarding the plot and the possible who seemed to have come straight out of a butler school climax to it. The play moves towards its climax with the with a dash of Chechnyan feel. Lalita, the comical maid reentry of Riyaan exclaiming that he had found Uncle was played by Rishita Dhelia, who has by now perfected Raj’s body which in turn turned out to be the pet guinea the art of being a comic relief. The play despite its claim pig. Just as it dawned on the audience that perhaps the play to be a murder mystery drew out more laughter from was not really a murder mystery, Mr. Prithviraj Chopra, the audience. The plot thickened as Raj’s new business played by Nivranshu Baruah, made his entry announcing partner and childhood friend, portrayed by seasoned actor that he along with his daughter and help would soon Devaansh Jallan, Tito D’Souza made his entry with his relocate to Europe and bequeathed in his will substantial funky music, amusing dialogues and noticeable pot-belly. benefits to his Ex-wife, present girlfriend, nephew and best
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