The Famous Veerappan Skit of June 2001!

The Kumbhmela scene, originally uploaded by Asha Mokashi.

This was the Famous Fabulous Skit we performed for the Freshers batch in June 2001!!! Written by Raghupathy Dixit (Raghu, please send me the script!), it was an Absolutely Laugh-without-a-break Riot! It was a spoof of the Veerappan story which was in the news those days. It is the story of two twin brothers Sandalwood and Rosewood, sons of a woodcutter, who get separated at the Kumbhmela stampede, and later one becomes Veerappan and the other becomes a policeman! Many many hilarious scenes later [with Mani coming in a skirt as Jayalalitha!!!], they meet in an encounter in the forest and recognize each other Amitabh-movie style - "Tere seene pe bhi daag hai, mere seene pe bhi daag hai! Bhai!!"

And in the end we all do a dance and go out while the entire office sat around us with tears of laughter flowing down their cheeks!!

We practised the whole thing in a day, with many of us doing multiple roles! There was a narrator - so we did not have any dialogues -and that is the reason why I could do my first ever stage appearance, and that too in 4 roles - woodcutter, soldier - I forgot the other two, somebody tell me!!!

This picture shows Woodcutter [me] taking his two chidren Rosewood[Mani] and Sandalwood[Lakshminarayanan] to Kumbhmela! Since they were supposed to be my children and so much smaller than me, they had to walk around on their knees!

Second picture below. Anyone has more photos of skit? Please send!

Thanks a million for the script and direction, Raghu! Write some more and send us - we are desperately looking for funny skits - and after this one, nothing is funny enough!
Asha