TIRUCHI: The creative streak in women in the city soared to greater heights even as Aura, a city-based women’s forum, entered its third year on Saturday.
A few among the 125-odd Aura members hogged the limelight, staging plays stuffed with hilarity. Three teams picked up the topics – ‘Better half,’ ‘Modern mothers’ and ‘Indhra Sabha’ – among a host of choices. In ‘Better half,’ the everyday scuffle between workaholic husband and edgy wife was shown in a lighter vein. When the husband fails to wish his spouse on her birthday, the depressed wife goes in search of miracle to treat her husband’s intolerance. A fake ascetic swindles her by taking a lakh for her husband’s treatment.
‘Modern mothers’ throws a surprise with an altogether different storyline. Two computer-literate moms fix up an alliance for their children. They exchange the profiles of bride and groom in Orkut, fix up a meeting at a women’s club and, what’s more, they book tickets online for the first show of a newly-released movie.
But it was ‘Indra Sabha’ that took the cake by its sheer stage backdrop and costumes. Imposing ‘simasanas,’ with Indra, Agni, Vayu and Varuna decked up in their best, cracking prudent wits every now and then. The play was all about a discussion with Indra and sabha members on election campaigning.
The members also had a chance to get first-hand information on the glitz of Kollywood. Priya V, director of ‘Kanda Naal Mudhal’ interacted with the audience.
Questions on her to-be-released movie ‘Kannamoochi Yenada’ were thrown at her.
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