The making of Modern Mahabharatha

--written by madhan--

It all started in our final year…the topic we got for the skit was “thinking of future in the present”…a junk topic which made me sick.. i was not interested in doing a skit…It was also a time when people from different departments were teasing us & our skit saying that there ll be a Indian flag for sure n things like that… I myself was convinced that was gonna happen this time also… until raghu spoke to me…

Raghu was really upset as he got teased very much in his bus… he just asked me to come up with a full comedy story n asked not to care about the topic… when I was thinking about it, the story that we performed in the class in the PD hour came to my mind.. I decided to do the same one and improve few things in it.. n it began like that with raghu, shivaram, senthil.b n most others chipping in with their contributions in selecting the songs…we thought of bringing the topic given to us somewhere n so I found apt for it to come in place of bhagavatghita…

A lot of songs that came was accidental like once I was a pillion rider to senthil.b & he was riding very rashly.. I instantaneously sung the song “rasavae unna nambi” and immediately realized that this will fit it for panchali when she was betted for the gambling…doing the dubbing work was equally fun… we were trying different voices n tried speaking in different modulations also.. u might still remember priyanka’s voice as a news reader… it took around an hour for her to do it in a single go…partly becos of my handwriting I guess but the final outcome was good…I have to mention about shiva here… he took up the panchali character n was teased by some unknown faces also... but was not bothered n did the role to perfection…

The day b4 the event, we performed b4 our guys n even our juniors were there… everyone were waiting for the next scene when the skit was over n it took some time for the claps to come.. this was when we realized that we need a good climax… me n shiva were discussing about that while going back home… n suddenly haja came up with the idea of bringing in ravana n Ramayana as the climax.. we felt it was too good n so were relieved from our worries..

In the competition our skit was the last one…n all the audience enjoyed it like anything except the judges…the comments from the judges were disheartening n we consoled ourselves by saying that it was only due our college.. we still believe that as the same skit without any modification got 1st place in ssn culturals.. that too in the absence of our star performer raghuveer…

It was really a nice experience that I got from doing this skit…one that I ll cherish forever…