March 04, 2007

Karachiites were treated to a fun-filled talk show lately, featuring Anwar Maqsood, Moin Akhtar and Bushra Ansari to help raise funds for Sada, a welfare foundation that extends help to underprivileged children seeking medical attention at the National Institute of Child Health (NICH).

The awesome threesome enacted skits from their hilarious show, Loose Talk, that features on ARY Digital. The show was conceived by Anwar Maqsood and is based upon the theme of Tim Sebastian’s Hard Talk on BBC, wherein Moin Akhtar mimicks different personalities every week.

This evening’s show commenced with the screening of a documentary followed by the Sada chairperson Fauzia Siddiqui and Afroze Ramzan Sher Ali of NICH thanking the donors for coming forward and extending their help. The first two parodies where by Bushra who portrayed an Indian poetess with outrageously hilarious verses like: “Mere dil ke DVD mein aap ki CD phans jati hai, Ruk ruk ke tasweer aati hai, Aankhein terhi ho jati hain.” She then went on to “Pindi mein, December mein khoob pare gi sardi, Opposition waley itna to sochain, Woh kaise utarainge wardi, Mujko Musho se hamdardi hai, Mujko Musho se hamdardi hai.” The spoof of a beautician was also performed equally well by the veteran TV actress.

Moin Akhtar performed four skits brilliantly and brought down the hall with laughter and applause. The first mimicry was that of a drunk Indian who doesn’t regard renowned poets such as Ghalib, Faraz and Iqbal highly at all. When Anwar Maqsood recites one of Faraz’s lines: “Apni hi awaaz ko beshak kaan mein rakna, Lekin shehar ki khamoshi…” the intoxicated poet adds, “Aik Lahore mein, Doosri ko Multan mein rakhna, Dono gharon ke bachon ko Mardan mein rakhna.”

These and many other hilarious couplets delivered flawlessly by the fabulous cast kept the audience enraptured right from the beginning until the conclusion. The skits were well rehearsed and chock-full of side-splitting, witty dialogues and gestures. In short, it was an event thoroughly worth attending.

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