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Picture perfect wedding
Renowned actress, Lillette Dubey, talks to City Times about her ‘most popular’ play, Wedding Album, which will show in the city this weekend
GIRISH KARNAD, ONE of India’s foremost playwrights, is known for his prowess to churn out intelligent and witty scripts. Recently the actor-director-producer turned his gaze on contemporary India and composed the uber-successful theatrical offering, Wedding Album.
Directed and produced by renowned theatre and film actress, Lillette Dubey, the play has achieved tremendous fame and acclaim through its 55 shows in major cities such as Bombay, Chandigarh, Kolkata, Singapore, Bangkok and Muscat.
And, now, the cast and crew of the play are all set to provoke theatre enthusiasts in Dubai with their cleverly fabricated tale of a traditional Indian wedding in a globalised and technologically advanced setting.
“It’s an entertaining play with lots of humour; in fact, it’s probably one of my most popular plays,” gushes Dubey over the phone (the busy lady is currently in the UK). “It presents a subtly insightful, tongue-in-cheek commentary on several issues in present-day India.”
The cast of the Oxford-published play features theatre personalities such as Smitha Jaikar (who has been seen as a supporting actress in several Hindi films), Utkarsh Mazumdar, Amar Talwar and Lillette Dubey’s younger daughter, Ira Dubey. The younger Dubey plays the role of the female protagonist of Wedding Album, who is on the verge of getting married off by her urban middle-class family.
One wonders what it was like for Dubey to work with a family member; “well, you tend to be a little more sensitive without even realising it,” the well-versed actress elucidates honestly. “But my daughters claim that I am more demanding and tend to push them,” she quips.
And whilst Wedding Album has received several compliments from audiences and positive reviews from critics, it was an incident that took place in Mangalore, India, that affirmed the realistic element of the story for Dubey. “A right wing group pulled some women out from a pub in Mangalore. In the play, a simple little girl goes to an internet café and gets pulled out by these men who consider themselves the guardians of our culture; a sort of moral police. Eventually, she shocks them by using abusive language,” explains Dubey. “Oddly enough, the incident in Mangalore took place after we had depicted it in the play,” she states. A case of life imitating art? Perhaps.
In parting Dubey claims that this play will immensely entertain audiences whilst simultaneously leaving them with a propensity and compulsion to think. “It is the story of what goes on behind the pictures that make up a wedding album.”
Wedding Album will be staged at the Dubai Community Theatre (DUCTAC), Mall of the Emirates tomorrow at 7:30 pm. Tickets range from Dhs125 to Dhs350. For further details please call 0507354309
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