'Naad' Patna presented 'Tamasha Interview Ka' - a street show in Patna on 29.4.2017

Peircing the sham administrative setup

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‘Tamasha Interview Ka’ exposes the systemic faults emanating as the farce of proclaimed due process. This street play which  looked like a bundle of humour from the exterior, was in fact able to pierce into deep interior the notion about the prevalence of sacrosanct administrative layer for the upkeep of the justice.  

STORY: An interview has been organized for selection of a right candidate to fill the vacant post in an office. The interviewers are more interested in serving the sweet wills of the influential sections of bureaucracy and politicians rather than selecting the meritorious candidate.  Firstly a boy comes whose name is Ashish. Just entering the interview centre, he is rebuffed by the staff. Anyway he succeeded to reach the interviewers, who initially welcome him under the impression of a relative of the politician for the similarity in the names. The moment the boy discloses that he is an ordinary boy and not the relative of the politician, he is hooted out by the interviewers being asked irrelevant questions and then schooling about of the bizarre answers of them. 

    Entrance of a belle converts the interview room into a bustling place. The two interviewers have now become Romeos and wishing the incoming girl to pose like a Juliet. The girl discloses her identity about being a relative of the politician who had called them up over the mobile phone.  Now the interviewers began to behave like her henchmen. They asked very simple questions providing the clues of the right answer. Even though the girl answered wrongly many a times, they were happy to interpret the answers in the way those become right.

    After the exit of that girl, another girl comes who is also a relative of influential person who have already phoned  them. The demeanor of this girl is excessive genteel though the quotient of intelligence is likely to lay at the bottom. Nevertheless the interviewer stars the formality of interviewing the girl. They ask about her age in the process of interview. The girl faints. All are nervous. Then suddenly the Commissioner arrives at the scene and snubs the interviewer why they asked difficult question of age with the girl. The interviewers are under the awe of the super boss assures that the girl will be selected for the post anyhow. After some time she comes in her sense and now the interviewers have no guts to ask any difficult question from her. The formality is over and now the episode of the romance of one of the interviewers with this genteel girl begins. After some amusing exchange of dialogues, both agree to marry each other and the plan of the Commissioner of getting an employed bridegroom for his sister-in-law is over. 

REVIEW: The script of Avijit Chakraborty is full of humour having full focus on a relevant issue of the collapse of the real role of the administrative system prevailing nowadays. The director Md. Johnny planned adeptly to use the small round enclosure of the ground in a manner that it should not prove less useful than a real stage.  Many a times one of the characters stood up above the chair to use the space upward in view of the obvious limitations of horizontal space in case of a street play. Rubi Khatun was marvelous in the double role. The partnership of Interviewers Sahitya Mishra and Saurabh Kumar was impressive and both of them showed how to change colours swiftly in a chamelian manner. Ravi Kumar, Deepak Kumar, Md Asif, Rajeev Roy and Ujjawal Kumar lived the characters well. The presentation of this street play must be admired. 

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