Tamil comedy play set to amuse Chennaites

Apsychiatrist is someone who has immense convincing skills. But, if someone had the power to convince a psychiatrist to bend the rules��� that���s the premise of our new Tamil play titled Kurukku Vazhiyil Traffic Jam,��� starts off Vivek Rajagopal of Chennai Drama House, which premieres its third play this Friday.
Humour is this director���s forte, as proved with his successful outings in Kandapadi Kandupudi and Indru Poi Netru Vaa.With his latest, he plans to further consolidate the group���s expertise in the genre. ���For those who have enjoyed our previous plays, we���ll give them the same satisfaction they derived then. For the newer audiences, we promise a couple of hours full of hilarious moments. There���ll be a lot of jokes that you can take back home,��� he says, ���We���ve avoided situational humour. And most importantly, all the jokes will be clean ones.��� The play uses the character of a hot-headed money-thirty actor and showcases the rule-bending mentality of people.
Social networking, he feels, can be used in a big way to reach out to newer audiences. ���The Internet and its power should be used by Tamil theatre to touch base with theatre lovers,��� he explains, ���But to hold them once they come to the halls, we need to come up with interesting themes.���
All his three plays revolved around the humour element and they feel that the rib-tickling one-liners and interesting jokes are their USP. ���We look up to theatre personalities like Crazy Mohan, Cho and K Balachander sir for inspiration,��� adds Vivek.
This is one group of youngsters keenly interested in theatre and reaching Tamil drama to audiences who���ve never seen the magic that the stage offers. ���We have a lot of fun during rehearsals, cracking jokes and improvising on our lines,��� explains Devaraj Perumal, one of the actors, ���We���re the same fun-loving bunch on stage as well and that���s one of the reasons why we���ve clicked with the audiences.���