Tring Tring!! the phone rang…Aargh what a clichéd way to start a post. Add to it the fact that nowadays phones don’t tring tring anymore. Let me accept the fact about my ring tone, it is the nasal scream for help – “Aap ka suroor” by Reshammiya. Not that I am any fan of the capped crusader I just kept it as a revenge on my team mate who has some melodramatic mallu song, which at times sounds like subhrabadham.

Coming back to the point, I cut short the scream from himesh with a hello and on the other end I had this person from our Rebelz PR Team, she was pretty excited. Seeing her excited voice I thought probably we had clinched a deal with 20th century fox for next 4 productions, but it was something else.. nevertheless as interesting as it. Indibloggers, the premiere Indian bloggers directory was planning to have a meet in Chennai and they wanted to know if we could do a show for them.

I started discussing it with other team members; now don’t visualize some 4-5 guys meeting and discussing over a cuppa coffee. In Rebelz parlance a discussion is a long mail thread where everyone gives their 2 cents, at times these 2 cents go on for 2 pages. The excitement factor caught on with others too, because we had not done any private shows and have only done public performances

The team almost came to a positive conclusion, except for our egoistic bum of a script writer[yeah its yours truly] who felt 15mins is too less to show his story building abilities. Finally there was a vote and the results was a 10-0 in favor of doing the show [actually I abstained from voting]

The reasons for wanting to do the show were aplenty. Two years back I was suffering from this compulsive impulsive blogging addiction [the deadliest disease after the one suffered by Rajesh Khanna in the movie Anand]. I used to put up 2 posts a day, keep refreshing them and make sure my comments count reaches 50[by commenting under different names of coz!!], so a show for the blogging community was something which appealed not just to me, but to the other avid bloggers in Rebelz team. Adding to this reason is the fact that more people will come to know about Rebelz .

Once we decided to go ahead, the theme and script were decided with two night outs. As it was a blogger meet we decided the theme will be around few bloggers being kidnapped. As for the characters we did not go too far for that, zeroed in on the funniest and most well received characters of our previous plays to go ahead. With the work for our next production “Once Upon a Time in Arabia” going in full zeal we did not want to interrupt it having rehearsals in weekends so again the rehearsals too took place at nights. Thanks to June, there are so many wedding mohoorthams around and any one of our parents would be going in for some wedding in other cities, leaving the house at our mercy.

The rehearsals were as always loads of fun..there were some lines for which we really ROFL-ed making the ground floor neighbors to lodge complaints once parents came back. One of those lines..
Pat – the chronic virgin to his kidnapper Vijay Ballya – “Can you please set me up a date with Katrina Kaif”
Vijay ballya Retorts back – “Katrina Kaif? you wont even get Mohammad Kaif!!”

It was so tough to keep guys in control and continue with the rehearsals. And yeah a special mention about our Vijay ballya, for whom this was the first time on stage. He was so nervous during the rehearsals that on one occasion he was trying to use the charger point in mobile for inserting the headphones plug and wasted 2 cigarettes by lighting the wrong ends. But on stage…man he simply rocked.

Coming to the most important part of this short n sweet production..hmmm… yeah on the final count it is the most important factor.. because more than spreading the Rebelz brand, more than experimenting our abilities in doing a 15min sketch where we can present memorable characters…this factor counts. And that is the audience reaction.

Awesome is the word which can come close to description.The bloggers surely had a wonderful sense of humor. They applauded, laughed, cheered and did everything which a performer wants on stage. All those dreary eyed night-out efforts attained their worth, thanks to their wonderful response. The video recording of the performance and the responses still gives us goose bumps. Is there anything more you need for a perfect weekend?

A very very special thanks to Renie and Santhoshini for making us put up this memorable show