SETU’s presentation of HUSH HUSH, a brilliant theatrical presentation of Chupke Chupke under the direction of Subrata Das had the audience rolling in laughter. The plays were held at the Mosesian theater in Watertown.  The adaptation of a popular film is never easy and kudos to Subrata Das for doing it in a brilliant manner.  

I watched the first presentation featuring Rahul Nair, Yogita Miharia, Gitanjali Srivastava, Nilay Mukherjee, Aveek Sircar, Guru Anandh, Ketan Dave, Arti Arora, Shilpi Alag Arora, Anil Matta, Abhishek Kumar Arora, Rohini Pola, Swapneel, Monisha, Namrata, Rimi and  Ujwal Wasekar. 

As you entered the theater, one was wowed with a beautiful mural by Priyanka Banerjee that served as the backdrop for the plays. The story revolves around a young brilliant professor who falls in love and gets married with a girl who thinks the world of her brother-in-law. How the professor manages to fool the brother-in-law into thinking that he is a driver makes for great laughs. The original script in Bengali was by Upendranath Ganguly. The beauty of this script is that while the play seems to be much-ado-about nothing, the writer brings out deep psychological characteristics of ordinary people. While you are laughing and enjoying the simple play you also feel an emotional connection to the characters who surely will remind you of people in your own lives. 

It was particularly impressive to see how audio and the script were cleverly used to depict scenes that require grand props. Whether it was romance or a comic act, every character delivered their part perfectly. Kudos to the director Subrata Das for picking the right person for the part and guiding the execution. 

SETU is a community theater where local people gather to do productions. More information at http://setu.us