Advantage humour
P. S. BHAT
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The audience at Kala Niketan was on a laugh track for three evenings.
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Photo: CH. Vijay Bhaskar
Laugh out loud: A scene from Laga Bus Lachchanna.
Sumadhura Kala Niketan organised the 13th humour playlet competition as part of its 35th anniversary at Vijayawada last weekend. Laga Bus Lachchanna, written and presented by S. Kasi Viswanath of Visakhapatnam, is a capricious politician-in-making who is a miser at home and at his best cunning self with the public. His run-up to the hustings is disastrous and amusing.
His wife refuses to vote for him. As he has just got a couple of votes, he is baffled as to who has voted for him. Beware, money and ambition can be a double jeopardy.
With the play updated to incorporate elements of the recent vote of confidence faced by the government in Parliament, the racy script won S. Kasi Viswanadh the prizes for the best director and best production.
K. Subbarao’s Navvakandi, produced by Kalaniketan, Veerannapalem, was a drag of a comedy about a dying father removed to the burial ground from his own house by his vexed dependents to snip the ills of the impending doom. A meek son and a domineering daughter-in-law cave into going in for elaborate arrangements for the last rites, planned by a brother-in-law. The old man, recovering from an overdose of opium, defies death, to stun the pall-bearers. A sad comment on the plight of the old and a biting punch on the event management, it won the second prize for production.
Sentiment Sundaram dealt with the half-clad villagers. Written and directed by P. Kavi for Vallam Narasimha Rao Memorial, Tiruvuru, the playlet had an audacious head of the village amusing the viewers with his moustache play and risking the life of a young man in support of sentiments of the illiterate. V. Varaprasad’s Idi Comedy Kaadu, produced by Baba Cultural Arts, Vijayawada, was the story of a bride’s quirk to quiz the stupid bridegroom and his father in order to rid herself of them. S. Koteswara Rao’s Tripoota Talam, produced by Vijayawada Sanskritika Samakhya, revealed the desperate efforts of a young couple and their kin to avoid an irascible neighbour and compulsive eater.
Adivishnu’s Mee Intlo Puli Vunda, presented by Malladi Creations of Hyderabad, had sparkling wit and measured intrigues. Patnala’s “Puli Raja” by Abhyudaya, Patapadu, was on the thwarted plans of a two men, one a broke character and the other a drunk, to entrap their landlord to inherit the property.
Ravikondala Rao, veteran film actor, presented his new script Vykunthapali as an exhibition play.
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