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Family dramas are a tricky thing to pull off; because the play has to maintain the pacing and at the same time make sure the audience are not underwhelmed with the conflict that is presented in the story. Generally this is done by focusing on two simple things, making sure that the comedy before the conflict is funny and clever enough, that the audience both enjoy the play and at the same time notice the build up towards the conflict; and when the shift from comedy to a much serious dramatic atmosphere does happen, the audience don’t find it jarring. Last year Mayurapriya presented Oru Kodi Kanavagul, a play that explored a very serious and rarely broached topic of the pressure that the education system places on youngsters today, in a very down to earth fashion. While I wouldn’t call the play an astounding success, it was definitely a very enjoyable one. This year they bring to stage Vivahamalai.com; another family drama that explores the difficulties that youngsters and ...

When creating a play, it is difficult to achieve both critical and commercial acclaim; but once you do it becomes even more difficult to do it once again. It’s like lightning striking the same place twice; it is possible, just incredibly rare. After the incredible success of Kaleeshwarabhavanam, with its incredible sets, powerful music and impeccable lighting, the bar was set incredibly high for Koothapiran Navabharath Theaters; and with their newest play Saduranga Parvai they aimed to set the bar even higher. Did they do it? Let’s find out, in this in-depth analysis of Saduranga Parvai. Seeing as how an in-depth analysis is something that I have not done before, I want to preface it by saying that I will be spoiling some details, barring the main twist of the play, as it is its most important component. This is something new I am planning to do with the Drama reviews this year both in an attempt to improve my own writing and also because I believe an in-depth analysis will g...

I know that it has been a long time since I have written anything productive and interesting and I really want to blame it all on my exams, but since I major in English, that excuse is not exactly valid. And with that statement out of the way, let me share some of the things that happened over the past few days and also delve a bit deeper into some of my personal opinions on a particularly touchy subject: Theism. For the longest time, since I was a kid to up till I was around thirteen, if you had asked me if I believed in God, I would admit that, yes, I did believe in god. I knew a lot of devotional songs, some of which I still remember, I believed that praying actually worked, I believed that there existed a person, omnipresent, omniscient, and all good that looked over all of us and made sure we were safe. I believed in poetic justice; you had to be good to have good things happen to you. It was also around this time that I started looking a bit deeper into religion a...