Bikhre bimb - an amazing play

We had been to this play last Sunday. Off late I have watched few plays and am loving the experience of watching plays :) Its not that I didn't watch plays before , but very rarely used to go to rangayana in Mysore. The frequency of watching plays has increased now. We watched " Jugaari cross" and "Bikhre bimb" on consecutive weekends ;) . "Bikhre bimb" is the Hindi version of "odakalu bimba" in kannada written by Girish Karnad. Its English version is " Heap of broken images" .

As we enter the theatre , we see a TV studio setup on the stage and a big screen as well. This is a nice way of letting the audience start thinking about what might unfold on this stage :) . Its a solo act by Arundati Nag. This was the first time I saw her in a play and she is just amazing :) 

Coming to the play itself , it is about a kannada author Manjula Nayak who acquires instant fame and money by writing a single English book , which is a work of genius. She comes to the TV studio to talk about her book and once that is done , she is about to leave when she hears her image talking to her from the big screen.Then the image starts interrogating her about the book , her past , and skeletons start tumbling out of the wardrobe. Whole sequence of play which follows is just amazing. I kept wondering as to how difficult it must be for the actress to sync with a recorded sequence playing on the screen..

The emotions involved in the relations of Manjula with her partially paralyzed yet highly intelligent younger sister Malini ,who was staying with Manjula and her husband , with Husband ,the dilemma and tragedies  involved in the lives of these 3 people when they were living together and at present , is brought out beautifully.Though there are negative shades in each of these characters , you can empathize with each of them. Though there is a single actress carrying off the whole play , you are taken through the emotions and feelings of all the 3 characters and you kind of know and can visualize the other characters very well. 

I started off thinking that I will write out the story of the play. But then thought , I shouldn't spoil it for others who still haven't watched the play :) Do watch it if you get a chance. I am waiting for the kannada version to come , want to watch the original ;)

Hum aapke hain kaun?

No , I am not going to write about the movie ;) Everybody knows and have seen enough of this movie already :D  Its about one memory which comes back every time I watch this movie or hear its name ..

I think the movie was released in 1994 . I badly wanted to watch the movie but sadly no one was ready to take me to theater :P Myself and Yashu went to Udayagiri ( area in Mysore where my mom's elder sister ( doddamma ) and her family stayed for a long time ) . I have lot of memories from childhood spent in Udayagiri .. :) May be I will write about them in my future posts ;) I really don't know what came upon me on that day . I started bugging doddamma to ask Dayanna ( my cousin bro ) to take me to this movie :D She tried to convince me saying that Dayanna had already been to this movie and Doddappa will scold him nicely if he comes with me again. I was not at all ready to listen and was very rigid on my stand :D So finally doddamma relented and we caught a bus to city to go to the theatre ;) Dayanna must have been all happy to see the movie again since he was a BIG fan of Madhuri Dixit ;)

 As we got down from bus , we met Dayanna's classmate and she smiled at Dayanna. Dayanna was trying to avoid her and later told me that she speaks a lot and hence he was trying to avoid her :D

During the movie , I remember one girl who was crying almost all through the movie ;)

We went back to bus stand to catch the bus and to Dayanna's agony , we met the same girl ( classmate ) again  :D

On the way back we discussed as to which is the best dress which Madhuri wore in the movie , etc , etc :D

This movie is played very often on one or the channels and every time I remember the above happenings :) Thats how some memories are .. They will be a part of us even though we have moved on from that phase and come a long way from there .. :)

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Teething problems :D

Today morning , when I was brushing my teeth ( ya I brush my teeth daily :D ) , I wondered as to why humans need brush , paste , etc to clean their teeth .. How do the other animals manage it ? And how was human race managing it before something like this was invented?

I asked Deepu the same question about animals managing their teeth. He said " They don't eat junk like this" looking at the dosa on his plate :D And he went on to have another 4-5 dosas :P

Some facts I found by googling about this -

• Small animals called cleaner shrimps have found a way of helping fish at coral reefs. As their name suggests, the shrimps clean the fish.The shrimp uses its tiny claws to pick stuff off the fish's body. That can include dead skin, tiny pieces of food, and wee creatures that can hurt the fish. The fish gets a nice cleaning.
• Small birds called plovers are also in the cleaning business. They have big customers crocodiles. Crocs have long snouts filled with sharp teeth. Cleaning them is tricky.
• Keep clean typically by chewing on hard objects. Dogs teeth can stay clean by chewing bones. Of course animals don't eat the sugar that humans eat so they have a easier time keeping their teeth clean in the first place.
• Inside the lips and cheeks of many animals, there are outgrowths that form natural toothbrushes. Some mammals have these outgrowths on the side of their tongues also. Every time the animal opens and closes his mouth these natural toothbrushes sweep up and down in a cleansing action.
• The lemur has six lower front teeth that protrude straight out of his front jaw. The underside of the front part of his tongue has small horny projections. By rapidly moving it back and forth over his teeth, he cleans them most effectively.
• Mongooses use their sharp claws as toothpicks.

Coming to humans , tooth brushes of one kind or another have been around for a very long time. one was found in an Egyptian pyramid dating to 3000 bc.
Would cave man have brushed his teeth? Again , let me Google ;) Some people say they were using twigs, but there were fewer cavities due to the lack of refined foods and sugars.


Hmmm , so much for keeping teeth clean ;) Do add any other information on this , if any of you who read this know :)
 

This is how I started ;)

So here I am , finally starting my blog :)

Nothing to be written as of now , and I don't know what exactly I will be writing in future as well ;) But I have been having so many thoughts running in my mind these days . So will try to put atleast some of them here ;)
 Thats it for now. Hope I will come up with something soon ;)