'Murder Of God' Is A Must Watch For The Society      

Jyothi Venkatesh

A lot of movies are being made with messages to the audience in order to bring a change in society. Although stage-play has taken a hold of this agenda a long time back one of its latest edition where a theatrical drama called 'Murder of God' was performed in Andheri recently. 'Murder of God' is written by Akhtar Ali and directed by Mujeeb Khan and is a comical satire which aims to change the perception of the society regarding fake godmen with a light-hearted courtroom drama where a culprit who claims he's killed God and demands he be given recognition instead of retribution for his work. He is prosecuted for the crime in the court where the final verdict is of the audiences. The culprit is portrayed by Imran Khan who is prominent films and television face and is currently seen on Star Plus and Hotstar's 'Divya Drishti'. Vaishnavi Macdonald who is also a part of 'Divya Drishti' played the Judge to this culprit and her portrayal of the character is a visual feast for the audience. Vaishnavi portrays a new-age judge who is not just present to listen but make sure the right voice is heard. She plays her character with such grace and enigma and still brings tears of joy amongst the audience. She opens the play and brings it to end where she engages the audience to let them decide whether the culprit deserves to be punished or to be set free. This was the first time Vaishnavi was a part of this play but it feels like she was the missing ingredient to the recipe of 'Murder of God'. Navtej who is a prominent theatre personality and the longest actor to be part of 'Murder of God' along with Imran Khan, played the prosecutor to the culprit and showed his experience and enactment is vastly recognition-worthy. The play was performed and executed rather beautifully and showed the director Mujeeb Khan knew all the nuances and bits of his characters and made sure to extract every gist of it from his actors. The play was although hilarious and got the audience off their seats laughing, the humble director believed there was scope for betterment as in Rabindranath Tagore words, "A play turns out the best of its potential after being performed 9 times"

Well, one who'd watch the play would not agree to this as it is an extravaganza and a delight to watch and if it actually does get better in the 9th performance one wouldn't want to miss any of it as 'Murder of God' always feels like it's been portrayed at its peak.   It also delivers an important message in a light-hearted satire about the increase in the number of man-made God and fake godmen which has resulted in religious chaos nation-wide.

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