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Ballygunje 1990
Set in an old aristocratic house in the Ballygunje area of Kolkata, Atul Satya Kaushik’s ‘Ballygunje 1990’ is an 85-minute long play sans an interval, starring Anunup Sonii and Nishtha Paliwal Tomar.
The raison d’etre of the play is really Vasuki’s (Nishtha) inability to forgive or so she wants her beau Kartik (Annup) to believe. The two have been lovers for over a decade before Kartik takes off for Mumbai in pursuit of greener pastures. A struggling writer, he bumps into Vasuki after a hiatus of a decade in the neighborhood bazaar and she invites him home.
The play therefore is an intense dialogue that transpires when the couple re-meet after a gap and after much has changed in Vasuki’s life, who is now married into a well-respected Bengali household. Kartik on the other hand still posts a single status.
As the audience is taken through how close they were and how easily they manage to catch up with each other, it becomes increasingly clear that the lady never stopped loving her man and had greater difficulty moving on from him than he did. Nishtha is superb as the jilted lover and Annup too delivers his mixed feelings well. Vasuki convinces Karthik that she has blood on her hands and that even without knowing about it, Kartik is thickly embroiled in the gruesome affair. As they are working and plotting their way out of the mess, the tale twists, revealing the plot
.One can’t help but give Nishtha Plaiwal extra points for having played Mandodari in Raavan ki Ramayan only the day before and shedding her royal robes for a suspense thriller and delivering Vasuki just after.
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