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Sunday best
This season the team returned with an extended arm of the parent event, ‘CC-3 Reloaded’. The event is an amalgamation of young talent from local universities, pitching in to promote some level of theatrics in an apparently art-starved student population of Karachi
lt wasn’t long ago that the Chaotic House of Creative Productions had launched their amateur venture, Creative Chaos (CC). This season the team — hailing from IBA, Karachi — returned with an extended arm of the parent event, CC-3 Reloaded. The event is an amalgamation of young talent from local universities, pitching in to promote some level of theatrics in an apparently art-starved student population of the city.
Promising a blend of theatrical skits, musical gigs and solo performances, the event once again managed to pull in a full house of attendants, largely students, to the Bahria Auditorium on Sunday night. Delayed by some 45 minutes due to a general air of enthusiastic jitters, the event chuffed off with a solo appearance by Rizwan Kiyani, who sang Kho gaya chaen and Basanti chola — the former an upbeat pop number along the lines of Zohaib Hasan’s style with some enjoyable guitars.
Sana Durrani and Khurram Maqbool followed up with an acoustic musical performance. Not bad for amateurs as they managed commendable voice control and pulled off a decent set of live guitar strings. The sound engineers, however, could have done a better job to avoid the occasional sound hiccups which kept occurring throughout the length of the event.
Nazim, an in-house comedian, performed parodies of assorted actors including Amitab Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan — an effort well received by the audiences but needing a hefty bit of polishing to truly stand out on stage. The duo comprising Amna Sarfaraz and Rizwan played Put your picture away (Kid Rock) and Broken — an acoustic gig well pulled-off but demanding greater voice practice and synchrony. Yet before long, the singers effectively had the listeners charmed and well into a quixotic mood.
The ‘old boys of IBA’ aka BhaiLoag made their entrance next with their signature-style eccentric rendition Rang de Barkatullah. The play revolved around a married couple, Bareeze and Barkatullah (aka Burky) with the former hailing from the posh localities of Defence and the latter, a resident of downtown Lyari. Hitting subliminally on the economic divide, lewd fashion statements, senseless status quo and tasteless TV talk-shows, the play hit hard some raw realities home while managing to keep the audiences effectively in stitches. The humour level waned a bit down the length of the play, and the conclusion was a notch too trite — a healthy red light for scriptwriters and directors to get their act together. Osama and Abbas stepped in to perform a live version of Desire with unusually good voice command and some expert guitars. The second and final play was by Funkars of IBA — another humourous act about graduation, finding a job and making a mark in the social circle. The play acutely targeted ludicrous modern-day advertising jingles and faddish talk-shows and managed to pull out a number of good laughs. The length of the play, however, diluted the overall effect.
A late musical performance by Azam Butt and Shoaib concluded the evening. A word of advice though — a little less stage-swagger and a little more play might do them good. All in all, a well-bundled up event organized by Rabiya Zia, Mehrin Abbassi, Mahvish and Uzair Kapadia, and one which brings to light a very important fact. There is a good deal of talent in the local student body just waiting to be drawn out, guided and polished by the right hands.
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