Onto the Stage – Slighted Souls and other stage and radio plays
Page 77Rajiv: Well, she let him have her eldest one and he had the other two on his own.
Raju: Isn’t it an exploitation of the meanest kind!
Rajiv: Why, it’s life’s reality of the ironic kind. Logically seen, it’s very sound, but sentimentally approached, it’s all fury. Whatever, can’t you visualize the parallel?
Raju: I do see but as you know I won’t approve of it.
Rajiv: So be it. By the way, who’s the guy we were talking about?
Raju: He’s Sampath one of my valued clients.
Rajiv: What’s his background like?
Raju: Why bother about that when you are averse to my proposal?
Rajiv: How do you know he won’t be interested in my proposal?
Rajiv: Whatever, don’t lose track of my application.
Raju: Don’t I owe it to my clients to pursue their cases. Now it’s time I attended to Rani’s errand. I will see your wife sometime later.
Ramya (voice over): Why don’t you come in Divya?
Divya (voice over): No, Ramya, Deva would have reached home by now. See you tomorrow, bye.
Ramya (voice over): Bye.
[Enter: Ramya.]
Ramya: Hi Raju garu, how is Rani?
Raju: She’s fine at my account and expense that is.
Rajiv: But with the honourable exception of His Exalted Obedience.
Raju: Well, Her Exalted Eminence would be waiting for me, good night.
Ramya: Tell her Divya and I will soon catch up with her. Good night.
Rajiv: Good night.
[Exit: Raju as Rajiv sees him off. Ramya goes into the bedroom.]
[Curtains down.]
Scene - 2
[Curtains Up: The Rajivs’ drawing room and the adjacent bedroom.]
Ramya (voice over): Why, what’s wrong with you?
Rajiv (voice over): That’s the problem with you middle-aged women.
Ramya (voice over): Okay baba, what has turned my old boy into a horny lad now? [Pause] Rajiv, don’t be mad.
[Rajiv, carrying a demure Ramya in his hands, comes out of the backstage and goes into the bedroom. He drops her in the bed and then draws her towards himself.]
Ramya: Wait until dark.
Rajiv: Is not sex the physical manifestation of emotional expression? Why, it’s the barrier-less bearer of man’s inner impulses.