Innocent Decision
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Blog's under construction. Will take about a month or so.
Till then, takkaire.
Cheers,
RaghaBoi
¶ 3:49 PM 0 Comments
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Never would I regret how I spent my time today.
Went to SSDC to take my BTT (Basic Theory Test). Honestly, the fact that people who I know have been failing it despite their many tries, was sort of a worry for me, that I might, just like them, not pass it too. But I guessed the study I did paid off. I passed my BTT! Yahoo!!!
My evening, spent it Substation. Watched the splendid performance by RDG (Ravindran Drama Group), more like their youth branch Puthiya Uthiram. I was looking forward for today because of this drama. I knew that I could expect something that was mind blowing, given that it was a production by RDG. Of course, I wasn’t disappointed. They had two dramas – Bommaikkul (Inside a Doll) and Moondru Suvar (3 walls). Both were just superb.
Bommaikkul was based on a little girl and how her family situation affects her and her growth. Her dad being a drunkard and her mum being someone who didn’t shower her with much love. How the word “success” – something that she comes across while reading book – affects the way she sees life and how she dreams to be successful – either as a lawyer, doctor or a businesswoman – the way small kids see themselves when they are young, their innocent vision of successful. She sees her dad beating her mum one night and she fears. She decides to run away from home. Home, a place where people seek comfort, becomes a place of hell for her. She fears that this such family situation will spoil her dreams of becoming someone successful. And her grown self boasting about how successful she is, in terms of work, academic but not in life exactly. However much successful she was, she didn’t live a perfect life. An incomplete family that is.
The little girl who played her role – words just can’t explain how impressed I am with her performance! Simply awesome. Young but talented. And the dad and mum. Realistic – maybe there’s a limit at times. He was supposed to beat her right, and hell, he did. Really slapped her and kicked her! You could hear the slap, let alone see it! People went like “OOOOOWWWW”. Haha. The girl who was supposed to be the ‘fairy’ or the grown up version of the lil gerl, she made the difference with the way she delivered her lines. Motivational and yet simple – just perfectly impactful! Dreams, success, love.
I remember something she said about why people don’t measure success with love. Why love cannot become a ruler for success??? Good question eh? Something to really ponder about!
The second drama “Moondru Suvar” concentrated on homosexuals. Interestingly, the role was played by my senior Arun Jayaram and another guy (he has appeared in Vasantahm before). Firstly, I have gotta praise Arun on his spoken tamil. From the time I know him till now, his Tamil has improved tremendously! Like really, you can see the significant difference in his Tamil. It’s about how the society doesn’t accept homosexuals – more specifically the Indian Society. I remember something mentioned – “just because people don’t accept it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist”. It is so true. We Indians do know that amongst the Indian community in Singapore there do exists homosexuals, but we just don’t seem to ignore it like it doesn’t exist at all! Like as if that will solve the problem (if is considered a problem at all).
Arun and ‘his partner’ did a spectacular job in doing that roles, as lovers. It takes courage, a lot of courage to actually act as homosexuals, in front of audiences, not forgetting that the stage is pretty small and is just an arm’s length away from the audience. Haha. Funny how the romance scene (or so it was supposed to be) didn’t receive “EWWS” and “Yucks” from the audience, but more like “OOOO” and “WHHEEEET”. Haha.
What was more surprising is that the script writer for the second drama were two JC graduates, my age (19), from RJC. Young! And what a great job they did in touching that issue. However much that I felt that the issue was dealt with in a very shallow manner, understanding that it was done by two females of my age, I felt that they deserve more praise than anything else.
one thing that bothers me though. Why is it that whenever there is an issue of homosexuals, it’s always depicted by males (gays) and not females (lesbians)? Somehow people are just more open to lesbians than gays! Why? Afterall, both are equally under the same catergory – homosexuals!!!
Influential. Mind blowing. Thought provoking. Excellence.
That’s what I would call this production. Hats off to the team, actors especially!
Looking forward to more productions.
Till then,
Cheers,
Ragha :) ¶ 12:52 AM 0 Comments
Went to SSDC to take my BTT (Basic Theory Test). Honestly, the fact that people who I know have been failing it despite their many tries, was sort of a worry for me, that I might, just like them, not pass it too. But I guessed the study I did paid off. I passed my BTT! Yahoo!!!
My evening, spent it Substation. Watched the splendid performance by RDG (Ravindran Drama Group), more like their youth branch Puthiya Uthiram. I was looking forward for today because of this drama. I knew that I could expect something that was mind blowing, given that it was a production by RDG. Of course, I wasn’t disappointed. They had two dramas – Bommaikkul (Inside a Doll) and Moondru Suvar (3 walls). Both were just superb.
Bommaikkul was based on a little girl and how her family situation affects her and her growth. Her dad being a drunkard and her mum being someone who didn’t shower her with much love. How the word “success” – something that she comes across while reading book – affects the way she sees life and how she dreams to be successful – either as a lawyer, doctor or a businesswoman – the way small kids see themselves when they are young, their innocent vision of successful. She sees her dad beating her mum one night and she fears. She decides to run away from home. Home, a place where people seek comfort, becomes a place of hell for her. She fears that this such family situation will spoil her dreams of becoming someone successful. And her grown self boasting about how successful she is, in terms of work, academic but not in life exactly. However much successful she was, she didn’t live a perfect life. An incomplete family that is.
The little girl who played her role – words just can’t explain how impressed I am with her performance! Simply awesome. Young but talented. And the dad and mum. Realistic – maybe there’s a limit at times. He was supposed to beat her right, and hell, he did. Really slapped her and kicked her! You could hear the slap, let alone see it! People went like “OOOOOWWWW”. Haha. The girl who was supposed to be the ‘fairy’ or the grown up version of the lil gerl, she made the difference with the way she delivered her lines. Motivational and yet simple – just perfectly impactful! Dreams, success, love.
I remember something she said about why people don’t measure success with love. Why love cannot become a ruler for success??? Good question eh? Something to really ponder about!
The second drama “Moondru Suvar” concentrated on homosexuals. Interestingly, the role was played by my senior Arun Jayaram and another guy (he has appeared in Vasantahm before). Firstly, I have gotta praise Arun on his spoken tamil. From the time I know him till now, his Tamil has improved tremendously! Like really, you can see the significant difference in his Tamil. It’s about how the society doesn’t accept homosexuals – more specifically the Indian Society. I remember something mentioned – “just because people don’t accept it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist”. It is so true. We Indians do know that amongst the Indian community in Singapore there do exists homosexuals, but we just don’t seem to ignore it like it doesn’t exist at all! Like as if that will solve the problem (if is considered a problem at all).
Arun and ‘his partner’ did a spectacular job in doing that roles, as lovers. It takes courage, a lot of courage to actually act as homosexuals, in front of audiences, not forgetting that the stage is pretty small and is just an arm’s length away from the audience. Haha. Funny how the romance scene (or so it was supposed to be) didn’t receive “EWWS” and “Yucks” from the audience, but more like “OOOO” and “WHHEEEET”. Haha.
What was more surprising is that the script writer for the second drama were two JC graduates, my age (19), from RJC. Young! And what a great job they did in touching that issue. However much that I felt that the issue was dealt with in a very shallow manner, understanding that it was done by two females of my age, I felt that they deserve more praise than anything else.
one thing that bothers me though. Why is it that whenever there is an issue of homosexuals, it’s always depicted by males (gays) and not females (lesbians)? Somehow people are just more open to lesbians than gays! Why? Afterall, both are equally under the same catergory – homosexuals!!!
Influential. Mind blowing. Thought provoking. Excellence.
That’s what I would call this production. Hats off to the team, actors especially!
Looking forward to more productions.
Till then,
Cheers,
Ragha :) ¶ 12:52 AM 0 Comments
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
You ignored her existence.
You don't deserve to exist.
...Fuck u J****...
Signing off,
JVR :) ¶ 8:29 PM 0 Comments
You don't deserve to exist.
...Fuck u J****...
Signing off,
JVR :) ¶ 8:29 PM 0 Comments
