A scene from Huge Boss, staged by PMG Mayurapriya.
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Is there just one path to success — a level in Engineering at a premier institute? And even assuming the reply is sure, what’s the worth one pays for this? These are among the many many questions PMG Mayurapriya’s newest play Huge Boss (story, dialogues, route P. Muthukumaran) raises concerning the training state of affairs. The play was staged lately for Sri Thyaga Brahma Gana Sabha.
Centum Sethuraman (Ganapathy Shankar) runs an academy, the place solely vivid college students are admitted. He places them by way of rigorous schedules and gloats when his college students rating centum within the board exams. His spouse Sowmya (Anu Suresh) tries to din some sense into him, declaring that the world operates based mostly on the regulation of averages. Superlative college students are few in quantity, as are those who rating very poorly. Most fall in between and will be helped to enhance their scores. However Sethuraman refuses to do away with his centum fixation. His trainer Shivasubramaniam (V.P.S. Shriraman ) reminds Sethuraman that he himself had by no means been an important pupil, and that many mediocre college students had discovered their area of interest. Furthermore, serving to a sensible pupil rating a centum was no large deal. Such college students wanted solely a nudge. What was necessary was giving the typical pupil a push, argues Shivasubramaniam. Initially, Sethuraman ignores Shivasubramaniam’s recommendation. However the demise of Shivasubramaniam brings a couple of change of coronary heart in him, and he decides to show the son of a labourer and an unruly boy who has performed truant typically.
From the play Huge Boss, which gained the Greatest Play award in Kodai Nataka Vizha 2024.
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4 college students are instructed to remain in Sethuraman’s home, and are lower off from the skin world. The examination outcomes are a credit score to Sethuraman. Sethuraman is given the Huge Boss title, as a result of he had stored the scholars sequestered, just like the individuals within the fashionable TV present Bigg Boss. This portion appeared contrived, as if it had been launched to justify the title.
Whereas the dialogues have been well-written, some pruning is required to make the script taut. The set was excellent with out being fussy. S. Aditya, G. Shiva Shankar, Dhiraj C. Mohan and S. Ananth as the scholars, have been filled with beans.
This play gained the Greatest Play award and 4 extra awards on the Kodai Nataka Vizha of Kartik Superb Arts this 12 months. The rolling trophy newly instituted by Ramkumar Ganesan, son of Sivaji Ganesan, goes to be awarded to the Mayurapriya group for all spherical efficiency.
