Fergusson times were beyond doubt the most memorable moments for most of the people I know and especially for the bunch of us (11 to be precise). This blog is to highlight one of the zillion whacked out things that we did… The piece highlights mostly the subtle sarcasm of Aditya Gogia, Jatin Pradeep’s brilliant timing, comprehension as well as reaction to the situations created... I figure somewhere there mostly adding to the humor … As far as my memory serves me Moinak and Neel weren’t totally a part of this ... so sorry!!! This piece is dedicated to our utter non sensical (to a matured mind... to whom fortunately we never performed too!!!) IMPROMPTU(S)
Mind races back to the one we played in A1 something to do with Lalu (Aditya Gogia) Rabri Devi (MOI.. think I played the chakka son also.. yes I did) and The Lawyer (Jatin Pradeep.. also played chakka friend to my chakka avatar.. and a news reporter).. Oorja time... Got the subject 1 hour before the play begun..JP (Jatin) in the organizing committee so he could barely be a part of building the plot… So I and Gogia came up with a broad one…
Lalu and Rabri… the same… Rabri’s 24th child to be born… news channels and all present… Birth to chakka… (Basically I give birth to ME!!)... Lalu figures out he is a chakka some years later when he and his other chakka friend comes over to ask money in typical chakka style (Well Gogia in real life has this uncanny knack of attracting eunuchs!!!) Lalu refuses to accept him/her/it/etc. to be the seed of his loins… takes Rabri to court… (ENTER JP after a million cameos in between) … Lalu takes Rabri’s phone … Dials a suspicious number and Jatin (Judge’s) phone started ringing… and Judge and Rabri flee the stage..
Just before we went on stage JP comes running, we barely tell him 4 lines of what we had intended to do… and we went on stage. We had to perform for at least 12 minutes and we were not sure if we could even last 3 minutes.. But then something happened to Gogia… I don’t know what till now but I guess he went into the mode he goes into when we walk down the road that connects Bhandarkar Road and the Backside of our place... He started and he was in full flow… No one could shut him up… Someone stood up in the crowd to do something and he yelled in Lalu style “AYE SHIT DWOON... GAWAR SALLAA.. NO MANAAAARSS” bechari got scared and sat down and stayed put… He was at his best and crowd was in splits…
JP with no freaking idea of script kept coming on the stage with his hazaaar avatars… none discussed before…sometimes news reporter, sometimes my chakka friend… and brilliantly adding to the script (if u could call it a script)His timing was just perfect and I was wondering on stage how the hell is this dude doing it… But the bastard did it… He rocked it man!!!
In fact once in between the play the entire audience was in splits and we just looked at each other and the three of us burst out… We were like what the holy fuck were we all doing but whatever we did fell in the grand scheme of things and in the end the play lasted for around 18 minutes if I am not wrong… with Gogia speaking for 13 minutes at least!!!! We blew the competition away and as always Famous Five prevailed!!!! It was awesome man … awesome!!!!!
(To be continued…..)
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