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Kamal Sunavala.
Farid Currim, Meenakshi Advani, Adhir Bhat, Dilnaz Irani and Anangsha Biswas.
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“The starting point of Kamal Sunavala’s UNDER THE INFLUENCE is Rakesh Mehra’s film Rang De Basanti. Go see the film ten times over, if its theme tugs away at a patriotic corner of your heart. The play is best avoided.”
- Mumbai Theatre Guide.
“The inert writing, a flimsy structure and an even weaker staging, plagued by yawn inducing blackouts, are perhaps only of the lesser problems with Kamal Sunawala’s UNDER THE INFLUENCE. The more worrying aspects are its naïve, simplistic approach and its sheer lack of sensitivity to research and reason. If the theatre is going to resemble the over-simplified world of popular television and the Bollywood movie, why bother with the effort in the first place?”
- Mumbai Theatre Guide.
“Wonder what Dilnaz Irani was doing in Kamal Sunavala’s UNDER THE INFLUENCE? If her performances in Joy Fernandes’ CHOTU or Cyrus Mistry’s LEGACY OF RAGE are anything to go by, she was simply wasting her time here.”
- Mumbai Theatre Guide.
“Today a very large percentage of our theatre suffers from the inability to think afresh. When we are not doling out stereotypes and stock situations, we pretend to be doing socially progressive, intellectually stimulating or mind tickling work. Why the pretence? Why plays like Kamal Sunawala’s UNDER THE INFLUENCE?”
- Mumbai Theatre Guide.
“If there is anything positive to be said about Kamal Sunavala’s UNDER THE INFLUENCE, it is its attempt at capturing the obvious idiyosyncrasies of the likes of the elite class- Parsis or Non Parsis. References to clubs like the CCI in South Bombay although a tad cliched, are not without irony.”
- Mumbai Theatre Guide.
*The writer is Editor of this site, a theatre critic and an academic keenly interested in Theatre and Performance Studies.
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