Shabana-Javed brings the House down in the US

Shabana-Javed brings the House down in the US
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 15:18 IST
By Subhash K Jha , Santa Banta News Network
/> Shabana and Javed had a crazy experience in St Louis in the US.

Remembers Shabana, "Javed and I had taken on a lot of teaching engagements along with our play Kaifi Aur Main where we enact scenes from my parents' life. After our speech in St Louis we were to leave for Washington DC.

But we were stranded in St Louis because of an ice storm. I must tell you, there were people standing in line for hours at the airport. Aur ek choon tak nahin ! Here in India we're so spoilt we start shouting at airline staff for a half-hour delay even when they're trying to help us. ....

Finally we reached Washington at 12.30 am for a 8 pm show. And the audience was still waiting. Can you imagine?! Our singer Jasvinder Singh continued singing until we reached."

What followed was even crazier. "We had the theatre for only an hour. We had to compress and edit a two-hour play to one hour. Javed was editing on stage and I was picking up the cues.

Our director Ramesh Talwar was going crazy behind the stage wondering how Javed did it. I must say Javed is a master. He could edit the play on the spot because he's a writer. At the end of it...standing ovation!!! Very gratifying."



All the fourteen shows of Shabana and Javed's play were sold out in the US. "We got a standing ovation everywhere. I must say Javed has acted better than any professional actor. There's a lot of poetry in the play. Javed is able to recite those lines with a conviction that no one else can.

Audiences were very surprised by his voice projection and his sense of humour. Not too many people know my father was a very humorous man. Javed could get into the skin of my father's lines."

Shabana sighs in bonafide ecstacy. "I'm blessed to have a husband who has written a play on my parents' life. The play has got the best of Abba's lyrics, poetry, politics and romance with my mother."

Shabana feels Kaifi Aur Main will go as far as her earlier play Tumhari Amrita. "It's a very personal play for me. There're bits that churn my guts. But it's also about remembering my father with a lot of affection. Hence healing and cathartic.

I must say the poem Bahut ajeeb aadmi tha that Javed wrote on my father was very healing for our entire family. My brother Baba said we must remember our father with joy. At the time when it happened it was naturally very traumatic for me.

But today I know what my brother means. We remember him with joy. The play celebrates him. It's wonderful that my mother's book Yaad Ki Rehguzar on which this play is based, is being picked up by nine universities in the US."
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