Theatre Review : Mahim Junction

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A play which had all the ingredients of being a top-notch enjoyable and entertaining play... However it turned out to be none of it in the end!! A really forgettable play to put it mildly...

The background setting is of a motley group of people who stay in a slum near the Mahim Junction Station. Their lives, interactions, ups and downs, goods and bads.. The play takes you through it all. For the cast, you have the drunkard, the eunuch, the chai-wala, the phoolwali, the hero and the heroine, and the one who loves the heroine, the villain, the NRI MLA, the police inspector and his side-kick and so on... The whole cast of the overboard 70s is there on the stage, interacting with each other, mouthing loud dialogues, singing and dancing to the old songs at the right (and the wrong) moments, the villain creating a problem in the hero-heroine's life, the corruption, the power hunger, the non-secular events.. All you could expect in a pot boiler of the 70s and more...

Doesn't it seem that this would have been an enjoyable play? But it wasn't. The script is the weak link, there is just too much put onto the stage and into the story that you lose track of what is happening. The play actually actually looks like the worst of the masala movies of those times...!

Though I should point out, the acting of the entire cast was superlative. Very natural and well-done. The script however failed them, it could definitely be worked on! Maybe with a better flow and some work on the dialogues so as the audience does not lose interest.. The play sure does have potential, though as of now, its avoidable..

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