Darshan Sanghrajka: Wanna Play Einstein & Gandhi?

Note: This review is from 2007

Review by Steve Bennett

Darshan Sanghrajka invented a game as a child, to help him deal with tricky situations. He had to decide whether it would be better dealt with by acting like Gandhi, as a lover, or like Einstein, as a thinker.

Using examples backed up by photographs and video, his show aims to illustrate how this technique has been employed in his life over the last three years. It seems a shaky method of linking some random anecdotes, particularly in his explanations of how the theory comes into play in each situation.

Sanghrajka had to drink tabasco shots to raise the money to bring his show to the festival. The audience is shown a video of him attempting this feat, dressed, inexplicably, as a gorilla. It looks like something off YouTube that, if you stumbled across it, you probably wouldn’t bother watching to the end.

Apparently, he took the Gandhi approach here, using perseverance to complete his task.It’s more fuzzy self-help manual than comedy.

We see him in the States completing his university degree, with strange flatmates and a chain of dodgy jobs that he uses the Einstein/Gandhi approach to get through.

There are some good stand-alone stories about getting into fights with Los Angeles gangsters and flooding a flat, but it does have the feel of a gap-year student giving a slideshow about their ‘crazy’ adventures.

Sanghrajka has a professional delivery and looks the part. He’s also got a lot of ideas and a lot of energy. But his material doesn’t back him up.

Reviewed by: Nione Meakin

Review date: 1 Jan 2007
Reviewed by: Steve Bennett

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