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`Beauty, Brains and Personality' proved to be an entertaining play about women and their personal woes
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AWESOME THREESOME (From left) Vandana Sajnani, Tejaswini Kolhapuri & Kashmira Shah
Two's company, three's fun. When theatre personality Vandana Sajnani, actress Kashmira Shah and ramp walker Tejaswini Kolhapure ganged up at Hotel Viceroy on Sunday night, they had drama buffs all tickled. The trio teased, taunted and tormented each other under the arc lights in the hit American play Beauty, Brains and Personality.
The comedy unfolds as buddies Tanya (Vandana), Pia (Tejaswini) and Sara (Kashmira) get together for their monthly dinner party and photo shoot, a friendship ritual of sorts. Vivacious Tanya works as a waitress in a restaurant, a "family one" as she calls it, where she draws quite a bit of male attention. However, Tanya feels men like her because she is cute and affable but ditch her because she isn't "beautiful".
On the other hand, Pia is a nerd who has decided that men don't matter to her. With a feminist streak in her, she thinks that marriage is not her cup of tea. But naturally, she also has a set of principles and ethics that is preached to anyone who cares to listen.
Sara, who obviously is the beauty, is quite blatant about her good looks and makes it apparent at the drop of the hat that she is the one who draws the roving eyes. With a string of boyfriends to fund her fancies, she puts on the charade of a super-successful woman, but secretly wishes that people appreciate more than her beauty.
Even as it is appears that the three vibe well with each other, there are hints that trouble is brewing. Finally, as the beauty issue boils over, Pia and Sara get involved in a verbal tirade, which ends when the latter is asked to leave. Sara storms off and that's where the first half ends.
The second half opens with a pregnant Tanya in Pia's house. The former has always wanted to have kids and she goes for artificial conception. Pia is now shown as a bindaas girl who loves decking up and getting noticed. Both of them miss Sara though they still nurse a grudge against her. When Sara turns up, all three of them talk through their issues and make peace, in the process discovering their true selves and being happy about who they are.
The dialogues were peppered with sexual innuendo but no one squirmed in their seats. On the contrary, the actresses consistently raised laughter with their timing and easy diction. Playing the sizzler's role to perfection, Kashmira got the men in the audience involved with flirtatious punchlines like "Don't you think I'm hot?" Some blushed, the rest guffawed and one unidentified man sent up a cat whistle. Though the numbers were affected by Ganesh processions, those who turned up cheered the cast and, by the looks of it, had a good time while doing so.
K. SACHIDANAND MENON
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