All about family bonds
RANJANI GOVIND
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Two Hindi soap celebrities came together on stage to offer quality entertainment.
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PLAYING ON EMOTIONS: `Kuch Tum Kaho Kuch Hum Kahein' was professionally presented. Photo: R. Shivaji Rao.
Chennai's Hindi weekly, South Chakra, completes ten years. It couldn't have had a better family entertainer for the celebrations organised in the city, than Pranav Tripathi's `Kuch Tum Kaho, Kuch Hum Kahein,' staged at the Music Academy, this past weekend.
Although the story revolves round the chemistry that makes up family bonds and the weak elasticity of adjustments that causes ties to unravel, the overall offering was a mixed bag of high value entertainment. Star significance helped to relate perfectly to joint family equations to start with.
Popular cast
The popular Hindi TV Saas-Bahu — Smriti Irani and Apara Mehta — were the heroines, co-starring Nirmit Vaishnav and Feroze Bhagat.
Pranav Tripathi also acted as an over-zealous employee of Sagar Advertising (under Feroze) while Amish Tanna hit it off well as home assistant.
While life looks easy and nearly rosy with the senior and junior Sagars, it is an outburst of egoistic exchanges between the father and son on money matters in their advertising trade that is the cause of discord in business and family.
The junior couple walks out in a huff, leaving mother Vasundhara pining for her son Pratik and daughter-in-law Sargam. One day, she faints and the fall leaves her with a fractured hand.
Enter Pratik and Sargam to take care of mummy for a month and it is here that Sargam promises to bring back into the limelight every artistic talent of her mother-in-law buried for years. There is life at home now — piano to painting, every interest of Vasundhara is revived and she wins accolades from all corners.
But the story, like a typical soap, does not end here. Out comes Vasundhara's wish to orient her company director daughter-in-law towards domestic affairs to ``give her a completeness in life."
The challenge is indeed accepted — Kuch Tum Kaho, Kuch Hum Kahein — thus driving home the point that both career and home need equal attention. And at the end of it all, the father and son discover their underlying affection for each other.
Special effort
The professional ease with which the story unfolded, those up-to-date stage sets that spoke of new-generation home design (the sleek kitchen and step-down drawing area for instance), the wall hangings, Tripathi's witty punch lines, costume changes, the fluid movements of the artistes on stage — all reflected special effort.
The acting particularly came through in the scene where Apara muses over the fight that leads to the separation shown in a flashback.
Tripathi's storyline had digs at tinsel world biggies and political majors too.
When Pratik adds Vasundhara Sagar to his name, the comment is "Oh! Just like Sanjay Leela Bhansali."
When the MIL and DIL throw challenges at each other, Sagar (Sr) is quick to add, "Uma Bharati Aur Sushma Swaraj Ke Beech Me, Vajpayee Ki Haalaat Ekdam Boora!"
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