All about marriage

Lessons of survival and rediscovery of love amid life that has moved on. With a lot of laughs, a comic portrayal of a New Age relationship is in the offing for Bangalore���s theatre lovers on Wednesday at the Good Shepherd Auditorium from 7 pm.
The play Anything But Love, directed by Vikrant Pawar, has Mandira Bedi and Samir Soni in the lead. They meet five years after their divorce at a restaurant.They are otherwise the typical urban couple, sometimes insecure, sometimes optimistic, with the baggage that comes with leading busy lives. The play looks at what happens after their chance meeting and whether life will let them belong to each other again.
Mandira Bedi told TOI that the theme was very relevant to modern times. She attributed the success of the play, in its 130th odd production, to the way the audience can relate to the theme and the issues. Anish and Seema are modern couples who belong to each other, yet have their differences. ���They love each other but at the same time find it hard to live with each other; they are real characters,������ she said.
Mandira has invited all her married friends, those who are engaged and those who have started seeing someone, because ���the play deals with several relationship issues that they can learn from������.
Talking about theatre in the country, she said in terms of the money spent, the look, the magnitude of production and the like, the country is in no way equal to say, to theatre in London. ���But as long as the play and the execution of the script connects with the audience, it is fine,������ she said.
Mumbai continues to be the hub of theatre in India and the scene and awareness there is far more developed than in any other place in the country. She added that regional theatre was far more developed than English theatre.