The play- "Hamlet - The Clown Prince", is a play directed by Rajat Kapoor. Well, he's credited in the industry for producing, and being involved in offbeat arts, like - "Bheja Fry", "Mixed Doubles", "Mithya" and upcoming "Fatso". So, well, he's an actor, director and writer.
The play was organized in Cochin in Fine Arts Hall, today. Our classmate, Juneja, planned and arranged the tickets for the play yesterday. And, it was first time in my entire life that, I was going to watch a live play. The excitement was heavy on me, and also a sense of finding and exploring arts. We all know, that the arts in form of plays have reduced since past. Due to dynamic and fast media like internet, movies, Television, etcetera, people often have leisure time to spare for such skilled art performances. Also, on first hand, I had decided to attend the play because, it was a kind of Arts. Arts and Science are two historical branches of study, which deals with very different sense of thought. Well, I might be wrong, because few art forms, in the form of books, plays, etcetera are do involved in finding an art form in profound or ordinary day science. One very well known example, and perhaps, one of the most credible source of writer in modern world is involved in such kind of art. If you have already guessed, then I won't suppress myself long to say that, he's a French writer named-
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. He's a well known writer, and to his credit is one of the prestigious prizes of this contemporary world. Not to hold too long he's a Noble Prize winner in Literature of 2008. I have not read many of his compositions, but the one which I have read, I would recommend for each and every individual of the society. It's for those, who want to be aware of the present, the world around us, the happening around us, the thought process within us, and many more important aspects of the world around us. The books name is- Terra Amata..
The book deals with very small and intricate details of happenings around any conscious creature. This piece of art, has changed my perception towards Art, which I earlier felt as insignificant to an extent. The book has such qualities, which cannot be generated by even a modern day science non-fiction book by may authors. So, Art becomes significant. Personally, I am inclined towards Art which is somewhat related to Nature, its workings, its dynamics, its significance, its profoundness, its reconditeness, its study, its revealing, and much more on the similar track. But you see, now a days, I have became even more generalized in what I should do to get associated with Arts. Well, if you have started thinking that, now I am going to opt for a career in Arts, then you are wrong. I would like to clarify that, I am much interested in the eclectic point of views which are in confluence with Science and which can be somehow put into a larger picture of the working of space-time around us. It's all the creation of Human mind, which is the center-point for anything called- Arts or Sciences.
Coming to todays play- "Hamlet - The Clown Prince", it was quite interesting to attend it, because, Rajat Kapoor opted for a different point of view towards an Art form which is more than 500 years old, by William Shakespeare. Looking into things with a different point of view, be it a piece of an Art or Science, always gives an insight to the workings which has not been explore by the generation hitherto. There's a famous quote by
Feynmann (Noble Prize Winner in Physics) that, we should strive to think and imagine about things from a different perspective. Perhaps, there was a deep insight into his sayings, and whose effect can be felt in whatever this principle is applied in. Like, todays play. In todays play, based on Hamlet, it was more of a comedy, rather than a serious tragedy. As far as I am concerned, I would make it clear that, I haven't read Hamlet, as I belonged to CBSE course in my schoolings, but I know this much that, it was one of the great plays ever created by Hamlet. Moreover, it was a serious tragedy. To explore Hamlet, from the perspective of Clowns, was a great experimentation by Rajat Kapoor. KUDOS!
Lastly, I would give a brief account of what happened all over since the evenings, when we had to arrive to attend the play. It was raining heavily, and I had to take my classmate Rahul too, since we planned to go together to the play. I went to my friends flat, where Rahul and me waited for the rains to mitigate. Finally, the clouds became less heavy, and we were somehow ready to move on. With the onset of our travel on bike, to the Fine Arts Hall, the clouds again became too heavy and started to put showers and droplets of rainy showering waters on me and Rahul. Perhaps, too heavy for us to continue riding. But, the will was not to be mitigated by any reason, and we had to reach in time. In between the loads of showers of rain droplets, we decided to move on. Wet and shivering, we reached the Fine Arts Hall on time. Despite a considerable comedy happening in the play, the hall was a bit of tragedy for me. The clothes were bedraggled, and it got the opportunity to dry itself in the winds of AC at 18 degrees. I became frozen, but still, enjoying the play. In the end, the play ended, with lots of applause and appreciation from the crowds. All the clown characters were awesome, and played really well.
Waiting for the rains and crowds to depart, finally we got an opportunity to interact with Rajat Kapoor. We merrily captured the moment with the help of my camera. The result has been well posted with this blog. After the play got over, five of us went to consume coffee, as the rain continued to endow heavy droplets of showers from few thousand meters above. Finally, the plays chapter got over, and I now have an experience of visiting a live play. I wish to attend more of those in future, and enjoy the live Distinguished and Extinguished Art Form.... :).
Sorry for any spelling or grammatical errors, if any, as it's 4 O'Clock in the morning and I am felling too sleepy to review the post now.
Siddartha S Verma
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