LIFE is where THEATRE is!!!!

This is what I had always thought and wanted to live, but did not exactly know where to find it!!! Till the morning of the 3rd when this Dominicanyork lady with a strange hair-do emerged out of the arrival gate of the NSCBI Airport and proceeded to cha

nge my life! And not only mine, of 23 others! It was crazy and yet so so simple!!! No gimmick, no big-mouth theory, just simple life and yeah a hell lot of theatre, theatre derived from everyday life and situations. Theatre is, I learnt, what we do everyday, how we be!!! It needn't have a message, a direction, a destination!!! It is just celebration, it is a lot of craziness, a lot of laughter, hip-hop, rock 'n roll, jazz and great fun! Yeah baby, it is just theatre, it is not the cure for AIDS. That is not our fucking business man, it is just fun! It is about finding rhythm and meaning in everyday life and reality. It is about heightened conciousness, of soaking in the maximum from the bombardment of images and simulations all around, and reproducing it all out! It is about learning how to learn, how to look within, of surprising the body and seeing what it can do! It is about stopping traffic, and lying down in a dirty road while clad in pristine white! It is about love, sharing, caring, of being so close as to be a relative, an ATTIYA, one who has relations with the soul, theatre is Josefina Baez!!!

I loved the workshop, everything that we did, together, as a group, as an individual, better than anything that I had ever done! And boy, what a relationship did I forge! A friend for life, a mentor, a guardian, a teacher, bloody fucking Big Guru J. You rock man, yeah you do!!! 

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Do you think, this could be poetry??? Well, even I didn't before the lady who said 'I ain't clear! I am Black! You got a problem with that!' asked us to make a list of things that we saw, much like the way in which she had done it a decade or so back writing:

 

STD ISD PCO STD ISD PCO 

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I learnt that every space could be a performance space! It need not be a designated, specified stage, with paraphernalia etc. I will never forget the way she exclaimed about a simple gift! I will never forget the T-shirt I got from her! I will never forget the warmth, the care, individual attention, the 'you do not hurt my stu

dents' warning! Wow, what 5 days, brilliant to say the least!!! I wa

s living with, for and in theatre, discussing it, thinking about it, feeling it, understanding it, growing with it, learning how to learn it! 

This is the kind of theatre that I have always wanted to do! Something that grows with and on you! Something that you carry along with you!!! I dunno when will I meet her again, but I will and yeah man, I know that!!! 

Be happy with what you have, don't think about that which you don't!!!

Life is where theatre is!

I love you, you crazy motherfu...lowers !!!

Loved being your troupe, am in your troupe, loved being the motherflower!

Puro SHUNTING hoe giye total CHILL kora

Ami Jamini, Tumi Sasi he,

Bhaticho gagano majhe!!!

Neki: Bhaticho bole kono Bangla shabda hoye na!!!

Gayak: Tui sala half-gandu, kichu janis na!!!

Ghala Bhanga Prabasir premika: Tora chup korbi!!!

Roga chele: Eto puro emosional atyachar, ganta shunbi naki, amar fone-e achi?

Roga Class 7 meye: Ufff, Kolkata kokhon jabo??!!!

Group leader-er meye: Ish garita ghuriye nile hoye na!!!!

Sabai samashare (Roga Class 7 bade): Thik thik, tai hok!!!

Antel: Ei bishoye Rabindranath ki bolechilo, tomra nischoi jano!!!

Jatiyotabad saptahaanta-ta just darun katlo. Gundi-r paribar ebong parar bondhuder shonge Kalinga bhraman-e gechilam. Panchalingeshwar, Baleshwar, Chandipur motamuti ei dhora chilo agendata-te kintu egulor shonge fau jure gelo Digha!!! Anek purono katha romanthan holo, toiro holo anek tatka shriti ja aro anekdin mon ke acchono kore rakhbe, ei bishoy ami nissandeho!!!

Just too much ananda holo. 19 jan ekshonge hoi hullor khawa dawa, gan, khela, etc. etc. darun darun laglo!!! Ei ekta beranor galpa niyei praye ekmas katiye dewa jaye. Highway-er dhare dariye truck-er hush hash ar tikhno alo dekhte dekhte beer khawar ananda sammandhe age obohito chilam na! Jemon chilam na eto porishkar ar tarakakhachito akaash dekhte. Amra sabai eto sahaje sabai ek hoye gelam je kokhono monei hocchilo na je amra onekei onekke ei prothom dekhlam. O! Ekta Jagannath Mandir dekha holo, ar Khirichora Gopinath-er mandir, khaja and khir respectively khub bhalo khete!!! Dwitiyo mandirta-te Krishn-er jibon-er mural murti kora chilo! Tar moddhe Bastraharan porbo ta besh aslil bola chole, seta niye besh anekkhon gana hasha-hashi chollo! 

Digha ta was completely unexpected. Abar sei purono hotel, tar sei baranda, sei beach, sei gan, eta abar howari chilo. Sedin je bhulta korechilam, seta je shotti bhul, seta chokhe angul diye praman pawata amar prappo chilo. Ekta nirmal khusir jhalak montake chuye gelo ar laglo asamanno!

Gundi-r paribarer shonge amar hridottar samparka anekdiner. Ei beranota setake aro anek reinforce korlo. Kaku, kakima, mama, mami, Polu, mashi and mesho sabaike aro kach theke dekhlam, chinlam, eta ekta onno dimension-e, anna kichur shongei melano kathin! 

Aro ekta katha bola uchit, Panchalingeshwar-er ghatana. Ekta odbhut mon kharap kara kintu anander, mane ekta strange paradoxical feeling holo. Odbhut dotana grosto obostha, kichui bojha jaye na emon! Emon age kokhono hoyeni, kintu holo. Ar bujhlam je samay gariye geche, amrao anekta anekta boro hoechi! Er cheye beshi bala samichin noye, bisheshoto jokhon ei emotion-ta ami define korar khamata rakhi na!

Koyekta shabda ei trip-er pore amader regular parlance-e dhuke geche:

Shunting: Side hoye jawa, guchiye newa

Chill kora: Relax kora, mal tana

Emosional Atyachar (Dev D): Sursuri dewa katha-barta ba gan, ja du fota choker jal udrek kore

Ami Jamini, Tumi Sasi he, Bhaticho gagano majhe: Amader theme song

Trip Resolution: Porer barer age, ulikkhito theme song-er dwitiyo line-ta Shunting kora!!!

Antel-er akhra

Majhe besh kichu din geche, geche osombhob bestota tai kichu lekhar samay paini ekebare! Jaihok dudin ager ekta ghatana diyei shuru kora jak. Accha mone hoy ekhanei sesh korte hobe abruptly, ami mashir bari, orthat Jodhpur Park-e achi, bhai-er internet connection ta bhisoni bhater, tai, bari giyei nahoye sampurna rupe likhbo!!!

To be continued...

Jhamela Cholche!!!

Dudin ba tin din mone nei, bari firlam ekta lekhar katha bhabte bhabte, Ganja niye, hebby jhinku lala type idea! Kintu bari firei berote holo, mashir shorir kharap, tarpor theke kichu daura dauri gelo! Uff, just too much typer, Nursing Home, Deeper bari, Pernod khelam, besh bhalo, university, application, etc. Modda katha, besh chap!!! Tai balchul bisesh lekha hoye ni! Er moddhe, UC Davis niye boshe besh sundar form torm jama kore dilam, aro ekta section khullo, aro essay likhte hobe, ei West Coaster malgulo just jata!

Eri moddhe ekta darun sandhya katalam, amar priyo bon Gundir barite! Or ekta recent osamanno safallo celebrate kora holo! Darun ranna korechilo or ma, orthat amar kakima, khub khub maja korlam! Ami khilli korchilam, tarpor kichu serious alochonao holo! Majhe ektu mon kharap lagchilo, last koyekdiner bestotar jonno, amar social life tar GMD hoye geche!!! Anek ghatanari je karone ami out of groove!!! But, Gundi always makes me very comfortable, ar ota to amari bari, amari family, basically tai, had a great, great evening! Khub emotional and satisfied lagchilo, kintu amar ja bhaggo, chotolok message korar foneta battery dead hoye gelo ar onnotar balance sesh hoye gelo!!! Ah! But felt very very satisfied and complete, bujhli Gundi!

(more on this amazing evening later, ekhon khete jete hobe!)

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Amar ignorance nischoi, er bepare kichui jantam na, ekta cinema dekhlam, tarpor alpo charcha, lokta khubi alpo beche chilo, kintu mama, ki chobi! Amar darun lage, just bhison darun!!!

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Bakkhali (Tuk kore tour!!!)

Hatath hujug ebong hatath bhraman kintu seshe besh maja korlam! Babar janmadin kokhono eto whacky bhabe celebrate kora hoye ni! D.H. Road-er dhare gari kharap holo ar amra cake, churi, mombati niye neme porlam, jake bole total khilli! Baper janme eto mach khayini, eto santa samudra dekhini, ar eto jama pore chan korini!(tracks ar fatua pore nemechilam!) Aro eto Kolkata theke matro 140 km dure, darun, bondhura mile ekbar jete hobe!

Tobe muhurta of the trip hocche Tintin da-r phone:

TINTIN DA: Hain, tumi kothaye?

ami: Bakkhali.

TINTIN DA: Heh, heh, dirty weekend, kar shonge gecho?

ami: Na dirty na, family!

TINTIN DA: Oh, rakhlam, phone koro, katha hobe, tata, uff!!!

Chobigulo boddo boro, tai tulte parchi na!!! Choto kore tulbo!

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