The Blue Mug

Ever heard of a 4 D puppet show, there is one and I missed it even when I knew about the schedule before the tickets were sent out. Anyone saw Musical Mamma Mia the movie, can you imagine its theater performance by the Abba group itself. All these I wanted to go, but couldn’t make it. Finally The Blue Mug –Director Atul Kumar Production- The Company Theatre, Mumbai Performed and Devised By: Rajat Kapoor, Vinay Pathak, Ranvir Shorey, Sheeba Chadha, Konkona Sen Sharma and Munish Bhardawaj. The names were so tempting it was hard to resist, I got tickets through a friend and you will not believe there were very few tickets left. Pay attention here its Chennai and it’s a Saturday evening (where the whole city will either be in a beach or a Mall or the great Sathyam) but still there are no tickets in Music Academy for a Hindi drama. Nice. I got the last few tickets and reached there in time to get centre seats. See it is like you don’t have any seat numbers, so on first come first served basis you get seat for yourself, the other way is to get those 1000 bucks tickets to get front rows but we reached in time to get centre balcony seats- good view and not near to speakers also. The show began and frankly speaking I was waiting for a story I expected a smooth drama with a moral. One by one each came and told an extract about their life I thought now the story will come now it will come but it continued. It was a play were everyone was describing one story of their life how they felt what they reacted. And the strangest thing was in those partially humorous partially serious partially ridiculous stories I could visualize myself. There was this part by vinay pathak where he says a poem telling there was a time he used to read millions of poems stories he used to remember those poems also not a single writer he had left but now even if he starts a book he somehow reads only few 15 pages and let it go – so very true for me. Another part about joint families by rajat kapoor, how those people spend all festivals and even non festival days together matched to a friend of mine who had accompanied me to the theatre. It was a beautiful play with awesome performance and lightings but surely what made it special is how it connected somewhere with our lives. And the blast was when in the end while leaving the Music Academy, when me and my friend went back in to attend nature’s call while our way out we saw the huge crowd around the artists and there they were I saw Konkane Sen, Vinay Pathak, Rajat Kapoor, Ranbir Shorey right in front of me. We did try to take snaps took few also but incompatibility with new phone, lack of flash and excitement stood in our paths to final happiness. It was an awesome experience and definitely I am not gonna miss any opportunity related to these theatre performances here on.