Bogie

  

English: Bogie
Kannada: ಬೋಗಿ
Director: PD Sathish Chandra
Writer: Chandan Shankar

Year: 2016
Genre: Dark Comedy
Synopsis: The play is about 7 friends who decide to go out on a trip and are supposed to meet in the railway station in their bogie. Each of the characters enters the stage unveiling their personalities which are very similar to what we see in our society.
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The Story of Bogie

Bogie – Journey of our lives

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After a rib tickling and spine chilling super hit performance of “13 Margosa Mahal” director by P. D. Satish Chandra and his team are back again with a new play which truly plays with the audiences' minds.

This is the 8th production of Prakasam and as envisioned by us, we as a team have come up with a fresh concept to entertain the audience. Even though the crux of all the previous productions have been entertainment we have always believed in bringing in a fresh perspective and a new concept at every stage. Its no different with Bogie – as the director and his team intend to tickle the brain cells of the conversant theatre audiences.  This play took birth in an improper abode where the so called prim and proper friends met after a long time. The meeting was a sheer coincidence, but the conversations and fun that followed reminded them of olden days where they knew in and out of each other. For some it was fun, for some it was reunion, and for some it was plain nostalgic. Now the problem when you have a director in you is that you actually go through most of it if not all and that’s exactly what happened to Sathish. A concept which was in the womb of his mind finally grew to become what we are presenting to all of you now – Bogie.

The play is about 7 friends who decide to go out on a trip and are supposed to meet in the railway station in their bogie. Each of the characters enters the stage unveiling their personalities which are very similar to what we see in our society. They talk about what they have enjoyed the most and how they have missed the same in their constant desire for materialistic comforts and a false feeling of status.

The characters are also supported by guest characters – 6 characters which are very close to each one of us who depict, control and influence various aspects of everyone’s life. They have a strong and meaningful message to the audience which they deliver through their talks with the main characters.

~ Why the story involves 7 friends and do all of them come on stage?

~ Why only 6 supporting characters and not 7?

~ Do we have any female characters in the story?

~ Well the answers are for you to find out on stage…. Very soon.

~ There are specific reasons behind choosing each of the characters which will be depicted throughout the play. So wait for a little while more and you will be scratching your head finding answers to a question –

~ “Are we leading a life or living it?????”

~ “Bogie – Journey of our lives” intends to help you find clarity……

Director & Concept: P D Sathish Chandra

Script: Chandan Shankar

Directors Note

This play was formulated over a friendly discussion when one of my long lost childhood friend surfaced into the restaurant and we had a lively chat about how we were and how we are. This left a bug in my brain which enthused me to think over the basic concept of the story. We have made our lives into something which every one else wants us to be, it could be what your mom, dad, wife, girlfriend, boss, peers etc. want, but when was the last time you stopped, looked back and thought about the fact that is this the way you wanted your life to be? Bogie is going to ask you the same question through six complicated main characters and six contradicting supporting characters. If this play even puts a thought in your mind about living life and motivates you to stop leading life, then the objective of Bogie is met and we pass with flying colors.

What I have noted largely in the past five years is that there is a fixed set of audiences for both Kannada & English theatre productions. Wherever there is a production we have the same set of audiences watching the play at different venues and more than 70% of the audience is repeated. This is not an encouraging development for healthy theatre, as we are not adding new audiences. This also stands out as the main difference between theatre in Bangalore and in other theatre-rich cities. As an old school theatre enthusiast, just mentioning or discussing this point was not enough for me. I felt a need and desire to do something about bringing back the masses into theatre. I was once advised by an avid theater lover who quoted "other large theatre groups are staging the same old Shakespeare, Karnad, Karanth and the likes. Why cant anyone or even you for that matter bring in a change??"  My discussions with various theatre groups and eminent personalities led me to figure out a way for myself, so started Prakasam & my productions to be staged at KH Kala Soudha & around the state.

P D Sathish Chandra

Cast & Crew  

About The Director: P D Sathish Chandra

Captain of the ship. Very difficult to understand him in short span of time. As a director he know how to bring out the work done by his cast n crew. Gives lots of freedom for the actors to show there acting skills. The team members are very lucky and happy to work with him and in return keeps all the members smiling all the time throughtout the rehearsals.

This is Sathish's seventh production under the Fourth Corner banner. He has been working with different theatre groups from India at different times. He currently runs Kala Soudha as its Director and aims to run the place to encourage new talent and to bring out performances that are fresh and unique. He is now acting as Paddu in Panduranga Vittala, a Kannada sitcom, on Zee Kannada. He is still known for his theatre columns in newspapers and with special reference to the Sunday reviews in the Times of India. For his personal profile CLICK HERE & Artist Profile CLICK HERE

Special Guest Cast: Sihi Kahi Chandru

His name strikes a smile in every ones face.  The undisputed king of Kannada TV Comedy shows he runs Final Cut Studios to encourage nourish and churn out soaps, cookery shows & sitcoms, entertaining Kannadigas world over from past 22 years.  Sihi Kahi Chandru has been on the minds of the crew from the day we started planning for Bogie.  He has supported all the ventures of Pra.Ka.Sam & has been on the board of advisors for Kala Soudha.  He readily agreed to act in Bogie since it had six characters and shades and the intrigued relation to the guest character in every scene to the main actors on stage enthused him to sign on.  With him on board the other cast members will have issues in coping up with his expertise and vigor.

Cast

Meghashree as Guna - Professional artist with a good number of experience in acting. Gives good number of tips to her co-actors with respect to how the performance of the character can be improvised.

Rish as Somshekar - Taller, Stronger & Smarter of our team. Wonderful co-actor to work with. All others are really scared to go near him just to escape from his strong hitting reactions on stage during rehearsals.

Praveen as Ravi - Black Cheetah of our team, very silent off-stage but when it goes to on-stage, he takes up the dialogs as strong as his muscular body.

Kushal as Lux - Nice person with lots of hidden talent in him. Theater lovers going to watch out for his comedian who is very good at his facial expressions and body language.

PD as Nihanth - Decent, silent and hard working. Very much dependent on working of dialogue modulation etc.

Gagan as Goutham - He is the kid of the show and does method acting just like his icon Aamir Khan. (ALL THE TEXT HERE FOR CAST & CREW WRITTEN BY HIM)

Hitha as Mangala - Have got a wonderful opportunity to showcase her talent in acting from this play ‘Bogie’. Its really a very good start to her with Prakasam.

Crew

Chandan - Script/Sound - The one who speaks the most in the team and keeps everyone happy during the rehearsals. Never gets bored to explain anything to the one who comes with a doubt to him. His writing talent is amazing.

Ashwin - Production - Friendly person who is well known for his scary laugh. Gives some innovative ideas to the director and actors with respect to the project. He is well versed in back stage work which is the back bone of any plays for that matter.

Santosh - Prodn. Manager - Helps the actors on stage during rehearsals and all are really thankful for his helping hands and great support. His unsatisfied hunger for theatre has kept all of our sprits alive.

Bairaju - Makeup - He knows the art of making people look cute or cunning with his subtle strokes of makeup brush and powder pad.

Vasu - Design - Hard working bee of our team. Takes care all the responsibility needed for the project assigned by the director and fulfill the needs asap. None of the actors can miss out a single phrase of dialog or blocking when they are front of him.

Jeevan - Lights - A sound engineer by profession also very much interested in theater. Takes care music responsibility in this project.

Chandru - Production - When he is not managing Kala Soudha he is busy managing the chaos the Bogie team is creating around Kala Soudha.

Smitha - Photography - Cool girl  with good photography skills and mostly she will in talk among us regarding how he captures stills.