Rahul Bose entertains as female newsreader
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Actor
Rahul Bose, who entertained audiences at a rugby event here by posing
as a female newsreader, hopes that was the first and last time he went
"truly overboard".
"It
was the first and hopefully last occasion when I've gone truly and
really overboard. It was at the Rugger Revue that takes place every two
years. It's a fund-raising event for us rugby players done on a very
large scale at the Mumbai Gymkhana," Rahul told IANS.
"All of us
have to performs skits, gags, tell jokes... whatever. I was the only
professional actor among us rugby players and had no ethical issues
about hamming it up to the hilt," he said.
Rahul played a female newsreader, an infant, an over-the-top lecherous Bengali and a caricature of a Tamilian on Saturday.
"Saying
my performances were over the top is putting it very mildly. The one
word that you've to leave at the door when you walk in for the Rugger
Revue is subtlety. There were basically a lot of Gymkhana members
getting together to raise money by going on stage at the risk of making
fools of themselves," he said.
Was it hard for Rahul to be unsubtle?
"Not
too many people know this, but when I came to Mumbai in 1989, my very
first performance was on stage in a play called 'Topsy Turvy'. I played
six different roles in it and every role was over the top."
Perhaps
the only actor in the world who plays rugby on a national level, Rahul
confirmed, "To be on the national rugby team and act? I'd definitely be
one of my kind".
Indo-Asian News Service
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