Omkar Bhatkar

Now, things are opening up again — restaurants, concerts, movie halls, theatre spaces, and offices. This play is a new play being staged in a physical manner after a very long time, when memories were made during the pandemic. It features two people — a couple who drifted apart. The time was wrong. But their memories remain. They meet again, 14 years on. They speak about what they remember. Both of them love cinema. That’s what brought them together, back when the time was right.

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Bhatkar tells us that audience members who know their films will find a lot of reference points in the play. Cinema Mon Amour is a self-explanatory tile. It’s Bhatkar expressing his love for films, especially those of Abbas Kiarostami, Andrei Tarkovsky, Terrence Malick and Yasujiro Ozu. It’s a confluence of the arts that the audience will experience at the play where writing, directing, acting and the movies will come together as one on stage. It’s been a while since that’s happened and Bhatkar feels that, well, it’s time to start rolling the ball again. Meanwhile, memories linger like they do of the last year-and-a-half or so, and of the estranged couple who meet after 14 years.

On: October 23 and 24, 6.30 pm
At: St Andrew’s Centre of Philosophy and Performing Arts, St Dominic Road, Bandra
Log on to: in.bookmyshow.com
Cost: Rs 300