Play House

Play house – or ghar ghar, as we used to refer to it - has a timeless, even ageless appeal, just the settings keep changing. What is life but a daily strip show of a play house themed screenplay? ‘Issues’, that we take on oh-so-seriously, if looked at from the outside, might seem like a dramatic, even melodramatic version of a play house series being enacted by the overgrown kids of today’s generation. And then, suddenly, you snap out of it and slip into another game, maybe sample a simulated car race, or a doctor-doctor episode or how about the inebriating effect of putting your life on the betting table for that ultimate game of chance, a game of cards. We have a tendency to slip into all these role plays with a reality-like seriousness, like our lives really depended on it. Our mountains out of those molehills, tunnels of darkness out of windows of opportunity with a light shining at the very end and our real life concretised, immortalized out of plaster of paris foundations. Looking inward, the fickleness, the flakes and the peeling make-up can be seen revealing glimpses of the real life beyond or is there anything real to begin with or are there just layers – beneath layers of make-believe – you choose what you can endure as reality! Go ahead, take your pick.