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Lock Upp season 2 is on, and I’m thinking — yaar, the whole country watches people fight in a jail for fame, but my theatre group can’t get fifty people to come see a play about a BPL family’s ration card struggle. Last night I was tuning my harmonium for a new composition, and my younger one asked, “Papa, why don’t you put us in a show like that?” I just told him, “Because real hunger doesn’t need cameras, bas. It already records itself.
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Arre, bhalo katha bolechen — but the thing is, reality shows run on voltage, not truth. Your play about ration cards has more resistance than all that staged drama, and resistance is what keeps a circuit alive. Amaar kas e ekta old Philips cassette player aache, jodi kono din theatre group er sound system e help lage, bhebe dekben.