A Play that yawned
Plays are like ‘the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.’ (L M Elliott) Yes, even those plays that resort to humour. Even slap-stick humour makes the chaotic world a tad simpler for us. But ‘Taj Mahal Ka Tender’, a comedy play in Hindustani seemed to transcend...
BIG B – Life on hinges of Hinglish
Let me start this review with a Buddha quote as a statutory warning: ‘Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.’ Well, the BIG here isn’t BIGG of BIGG BOSS, the B...
Ghalib, Kalmadi, and ‘Sheila ki jawani’ on stage together!
Yes, they are spiritedly brought together onstage in the contemporary, creative cocktail of satire that links the legendary Ghalib and Delhi in its present newsworthy avatar! It all happens in a frabjous play called ‘Ghalib in New Delhi’, whose 300th show was staged on the 30th of January 2011 at Sriram Centre, Mandi House in...
