Monday, August 16, 2010

SPANDYQUOTES

Now that we're finished with the play, time for some of those absolute gems delivered by our dear director, Spandan Mishra, displaying various gradients of polite rebuke during feedback sessions.

You shat a little, but cleaned it up. You were more in the loo than on the stage.
- to Shaggy, who did some obvious damage control

The audience does not need to see every length, breadth or hair on your navel and neither do I.
- When short clothes exposed the hirsuteness of the actors

Your reactions were terrible. You perhaps expected him to hump her then and there in the canteen.
- on the Mandili's less-than-impressive reaction post the Shalini Gupta scene

It was fantastic. Just don't do it again, ok?
- on why Bisu should keep some things exclusive

Why do you look away from him?! Look at him. He's a friend. We have to accept them as they are.
- On Bisu's constant looking away from Siddharth Mishra, whose aesthetics are obviously not appealing to the former

What you need to do is find a balance between taking a pause and remembering that there's a line to be delivered.
- to Ketaki, who obviously suffers from amnesia along with arthritis

The consistency with which you were trying to decimate the scene was amazing
- on Shaggy's scene with PeeVee

Thank you, Rama, for adding a sinister South Indian element to the doctor.
- To the soundsman who took over the VOing, leading to hilarious results

I thought someone was taking a dead body across the wings... "Don't mind us" types...
- On Kashan's audibility from the wings

That was a directorial success for the script, so give ME a hand for that.''
- After the last practice

And a bonus dialogue:
Spandy: And now, coming to YOUR scene with Shalini Gupta...
Shaggy: I know, I know. That scene was potty from the moment I started it
Spandy: Extremely touching.

And this one from the The Diary practice days:
I love you all from the cockles of my intestines.