Generally Speaking Script

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GENERALLY SPEAKING Annual Street Production, 2016-17

SCENE 1The play starts with two chairs placed in the centre of the circle, two sections of people enter the periphery, (the entire scene being in pantomime) their faces are covered with a white or a black cloth (white cloth represents “the general category” & the black cloth represents the three “reserved categories”, i.e., SC, ST & OBC) they divide themselves based on the cloth they have on their faces and with no further ado two lines are formed, one, of the people with the white cloth and the other, of people with the black cloth. *music fades in* Now one by one people come forward from both the lines, sit on the chairs, a scroll is thrown towards them from the periphery (the scroll depicts the opportunities people get in the form of education and jobs). The line proceeds, and a point comes when the seat for the black clothed goes unfilled and the queue of the white clothed is still very long. The aggression boils and the music intensifies, then a black clothed person is seen coming towards his seat (without waiting for too long) due to which the white clothed people lose their cool and one of the white clothed person starts a revolt against this practice shows his aggression and hostility towards the black clothed guy. A circle is formed in his support and a protest begins with the stomping of the white clothed people. The music softens and a voice in the backdrop is heard,

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The white clothed guy stands up on the chair and raises his hand in revolt against the RESERVATION POLICY and the music reaches a crescendo. The boy standing on the chair removes his cloth along with all the other people standing in the circle in his support, one by one they start off with their illogical rants, Boy on the chair starts off with his rant: “

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Music stops. The end of this scene introduces two essential characters of the play; a girl of around 17-18 years named VEERA, (the girl sitting on the chair) and a boy of around 20-21 years named VEER (who was earlier standing on the other chair). VEERA removes her cloth and looks around the circle for her brother, VEER.

SCENE 2A scene with an abstract geography with the chairs in the centre and a proper choir at the edge of the circle, where VEER is trying to convince his younger sister VEERA that why RESERVATION is not required in the present scenario. VEERA-(removing her black cloth, calls for her brother)

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A choir is formed on the edge of the periphery as VEER is seen entering the circle. VEER-(irritated)

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SCENE 3After telling VEERA that why RESERVATION is not required in today’s scenario, VEER is now really very irritated and frustrated to have all the things back on the surface of his head. He now starts off with telling her about the so-called “loopholes” of the RESERVATION POLICY of INDIA. The geography of the scene changes as the scene proceeds, from an abstract geography to a theatre and then to an open Chinese restaurant.

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VEER- Han sab alag hain behan. Sarkaar humein alag kar rahi hai, hum mein photo daal rahi hai. Accha ab na bore mat kar, paas mei hi mere dost ka ek play ho raha hai chal dekhne chalte hain. Both of them turn their chairs and the scene changes into a theatre where an artist is performing, and a few people are seated as audience. The scene proceeds as the actor takes his dialogue. ब !!

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An imaginary crowd enters the circle displaying two politicians using reservation as an agenda for vote bank politics. VEER-

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SCENE 4A boy enters the circle, and in this scene it is shown as to how ignorant people interact with the people working for them, i.e. a maid, a cobbler, a garbage man and a manual scavenger. The professions have been so rigidly stuck with the people, which is a result of a demeaning and wanton habits and mindset of people from the upper caste. BOY-

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The scene is continued when the boy gets a notification on his mobile that he has been made the admin of a Whatsapp group, named, ‘THE BEST OF INDIA’. BOY-Someone made me the admin of the Best Of India!? Hello guys Jai General this side! Participant 1 - Hi jai, sanchit general this side,

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Participant 4- Surf excel is cleaner than you Neeraj Participant 5- My heels are higher than your standards neeraj Participant 6- Hi guys Jagdish ST here Participant 7- 47 messages already Participant 8- ST, more like Social Trash Participant 9- Hello, Hannu dalit boy here Participant 10-

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This scene makes clear how socially excluded people from Reserved category are made. SCENE 5The scene is shifted to a restaurant where, supposedly, the best ‘Rayeta’ is made. This scene shows how important it is for a nation to have equal representation of people from different classes and sects so that the growth seen is not polarized to a particular class. BOY- अ

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SCENE 6The next pantomime scene starts in an era before Reservation policy was implemented. The same group of people, black and white masked, are seen again where this time the historic discrimination faced by the lower caste people is seen and solidifies the reason as to why Reservation was brought into practice. VEERA- अब VEERVEERA-

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