Rafta Rafta

The Comedy put up by the Singapore group, Hum Theatre at the Metroplus theatre fest on the 12th. The best part of the show was quite honestly the props- done by the late Mr. Mitran Devanesan- it was the picture of an almost typical Indian house- though the setting was Singapore- it could have really been anywhere.

The story revolves around a young newly married couple - an Indian boy and a Chinese girl - so a little culture shock - though it didn't focus so much on that- no food jokes. There's the typically interfering Indian boss and his vamp wife, the annoying younger brother with no regard for privacy - and to top things off the young couple are staying with his parents.

There's a lot of adjusting, finding themselves, and meanwhile a good many family secrets come out( and they're all fairly disfunctional).

The best role- and actor- was by far, Eeshwar, the boy's father- by turn, comic and tragic, a caring father and an utterly obtuse and interfering man. Some of the plot was hackneyed, the first half dragged a little, and I thought, it ended on an unnecessarily unhappy note- not entirely unexpected, but unfortunate all the same. Guess not everyone gets a happy ending