Chandigarh, April 27, 2023: What happens when the communication between a couple reduces to a non-stop bickering? Atul Satya Koushik’s play, My Wife’s 8th Vachan attempts to answer this question in a comic fashion.
On the concluding day of Hasyam, three-day annual Comedy Theatre Festival 2023, My Wife’s 8th Vachan, an eighty-five-minute comedy and family play inspired from marriages was staged at Tagore Theatre in Sector 18 here today. The play, which was staged by The Films and Theatre Society, Mumbai, is about the mystery called "marriage" that has deepened with each effort of solving it. This play, at most, is another ambitious (read failed) attempt at doing so.
Famous Film, TV and Theatre actors Anup Soni, Vinay Jain and debutant Monisha Singh Katial took the audience through this episode of comedy drama. The production bears the stamp of a typical Atul Satya Koushik production i.e. lavish sets, costumes, music and a spectacular wholesome experience for the audience.
Madhur and Mahak are no different from any married couple who have been co-existing in each other’s lives for fifteen years and have been quarrelling for reasons unknown. So much so that their little daughter has decided to study in boarding school to avoid daily battles her parents invent out of nowhere.
Mahak wants to address the elephant in the room and talk to Madhur about the state of their marriage. She is prepared even if some difficult decision needs to be made about it now. A reluctant Madhur finds himself in the most uncanny episode of his life when the eighth promise that Mahak made at the time of their marriage comes back to haunt her.
Two-minute silence was observed before the play started, to pay tribute to the former Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal
The festival included three comedy plays, featuring prominent theatre artists from different parts of the country. The festival was organised by Chandigarh Sangeet Natak Akademi in collaboration with the Department of Cultural Affairs, Chandigarh Administration and Tagore Theatre Society, Chandigarh.
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