Saturday, August 1, 2009

how I became a molester...!

Ok..!! this is the story behind me turning into a molester. St. Xavier's college, mumbai announced the preparation for Malhar '09. Xavier's Institute of Communications (XIC) was not a part of the direct arrangements, even though we do share the same campus. We were on the top of the invitee list for sure. Thus niren from the PR section was selected as the Contigent Leader (CL) from XIC. We were given a list of all the events and the rules (darn !). Riddhi and Nikunj were both gung ho about the hinglish theatre event and wanted to participate no matter what, (i was only interested in whose line is it anyway). We all sat together n started thinking about which topic to select from the given list, it was a compilation of seriously funny topics. This list was something like this, Paapi Gudia, Daaku daddy, when hari (not harry) met sally, etc. The group finally decided on Kantaben's secrets (takes its name from Victoria's secrets). As the title suggests, our first thoughts (actually mine) were about homosexual jokes and related comedy, but it somehow didnt make sense. Riddhi thought why not make it a dark and scary story instead of a foolish spoof, Nikunj asserted. He suggested that we should take it on child molestation in Indian households (he surely feels strongly against this, its on his blog too). Well now slowly our story was unfolding, the characters slowly came into the light. Shruti fitted our idea about Kantaben, fair, chubby very Gujju looking and amazing acting capabilities (she can give you goosebumps... believe me!). Sasha fitted our daughter character, she was tiny, well thats about it. No, really she can give those meek cries very realistically. But now we needed the bad guy, the molester. The uncle's character,as the group decided, would be kept in the dark, the face wouldnt be shown to the audience. now this was difficult to find, not only did the actor need to be made of stone to live with the creepy feeling of being in a molester's shoes but also had to be in the dark, which means no fame. this was getting on to us now, when Ruthy suddenly turned and said 'Hey vish why dont u be the molester?!'
What?? me?? in that unbeleivably creepy role?? no chance.. then she said a good line, 'you have the voice man' I didnt know how to take it. As a compliment or an insult, darn I fell for it, the little christian girl got me into acting as a molester. I thought why not give it a shot, I wont be seen anyway.
Well, thats the story, hope u all enjoyed it, do write in soon

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