On 31st July I saw a play – Mohan Rakesh’s Adhe Adhure. I had heard about this play earlier but what got me interested was the ensemble cast. With Lilette Dubey directing and acting with Mohan Agashe as co-actor was simply too much to resist. This 105 minute play in two acts was engrossing. The storyline in today’s context was nothing unusual, though set in 1969, it was. A dissatisfied woman who tries to get her house in order, an unhappy man, three children grappling with themselves and their surroundings, a home bursting at the seams with dissonance… So who comes out the winner?? No one. The lady tries to break away, to make a happy life for herself and fails. The men in her life somehow never come forward to support her. Her children are cocooned in their stories. The man of the house utterly depressed, leaves the house to be with a friend but cannot remain away for long. Life continues…half lived.
Mohan Agashe’s portrayal of four men in the play was a winner and he did it with all the honesty of an actor. Lilette stated at the end of the play (while taking the bow) that she had promised herself when she first saw this play while in college, that Adhe Adhure would be her first play directed in Hindi and at Delhi. Well, she did a good job of it. Congratulations!!
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