Meet We Three

 We three had an online meeting today for a little more than an hour. Among many many things we discussed the following things.

1. We talked about the play we wrote in the last class. In that class we COLLABORATED to create a STORY based on our viewing of an old advertisement about a drinking water company called "Bisleri". It is a product more popular in the Indian market and yet the creators made an interesting choice when deciding Characters and Setting. In our 1st December class we built on the story offered in "Bisleri" advertisement and collaborated to make a FULL fledged play. In the end we all had our own plays. Mehnab and Udita missed the major part of the class and so I talked to Mehnab to explain the whole process, which was also explained by Rifat. 
2. We talked about a short film titled The Miniaturist of Junagarh" (2021) with Nasiruddin Shah in the lead role of a miniaturist painter. When Mehnab told us how she always wanted to write a film script, I jumped to her suggestion and told her that we can easily shift our Play-script of "The Happy Isle" into a film script. Mehnab agreed to this and hopefully, when she is done with her Play-script, we can work on it to make it a Film-script. 
3. At one point we discussed how a particular setting or place association can influence a writer to write a story and give it a shape of a Play. We then accessed a dozen pictures of Old Dhaka palace "Ruplal House" and instantly made a story based on its character and the people who might be found on a lazy evening. 
4. One major aspect of our discussion was that we decided that we shall need more INTENSE collaboration during the time of Final Play Project. We planned that we can have two WHOLE-day session starting from 8 am and lasting till lunchtime with lot of refreshments to accompany us. On these two days we can divide our class population into two groups and work on-site to develop our individual PORTFOLIO materials. 
   
5. I have also promised Rifat and Mehnab to share a short story we (I and a creative writing student) created a few years ago based on our perception of Old Dhaka and its people.