A PRIVATE AFFAIR (Hinglish Comedy) August 23, 2008

PIERROT’S TROUPE Presents
A Private Affair- (Hindi Comedy)
Story: Charles Emery
Script and Direction: Dr. M. SAYEED ALAM
Aug 23 (Sat ), 7:00pm
ALLIANCE FRANCAISE , 72 Lodhi Estate, Near IIC , New Delhi

Geeta Thadani, a psychiatrist, arrives in Delhi with her secretary (read ‘psychiatry’) Anil to deliver a lecture on split personality. Next day, she forgets to move out and stays on in the bedroom of a suite of a five-star hotel. Anil, who was stitching her torn skirt in the drawing room, goes into the bedroom with Geeta. Soon after one Captain Mehta arrives. When he enters the room he sees the skirt and calls the reception to get it picked up. He moves to the second bedroom to freshen up. Meanwhile, Anil enters and takes the skirt with him to the first bedroom. When the waiter arrives he does not obviously find the skirt. He dismisses the entire episode as just a hallucination the Captain might have had.

But there are other problems that soon crop up. Geeta orders food for two persons and it is a bewildered Captain who answers the waiter. The waiter is now sure that the Captain is either drunk or has a woman with him in the bedroom. The situation gets more complicated as another Character, Abu Salem looking Bhai, adds to the confusion. The Bhai has come to meet the psychiatrist, but the Captain sends him away saying that he has come to a wrong place. Geeta, who had been expecting the Bhai, finds only the Captain in the room and takes him as the Bhai, while the Captain thinks that Geeta and her secretary are crooks out to rob him. Geeta, concerned about the gravity of her patient’s condition, begins Captain’s treatment.

Watch the play to find out if the cure drives the Captain mad or does he drive Geeta and her secretary away first?

Remarks

Alam leaves the audience laughing all the way. The Hindustan Times
The script is full of hilarious situations and lines. The Hindu

Pierrot’s Troupe and its director M. Sayeed Alam have a realistic approach to theatre. So was the case with A Private Affair, too. The Statesman
Th A play enlivened by many hilarious situations and witty lines—The Hindustan Times

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