‘Blame it on Yashraj’ Play on Inter-Religion Marriage

EFT Report, Mumbai: Once upon a time, around 54 BC (that’s before Bollywood Control), weddings in India were simple, ‘‘rituals-linked to-individual-communities’’ affairs. Then Bollywood happened and changed the face of Indian weddings forever and made them all cloned look-alikes of a Punjabi Bollywood six day wedding.

Blame it on Yashraj, is a hilarious story of a Punjabi/Bengali family caught up in the whirlwind of a wedding getting bigger and bigger by the day, when their darling daughter decides to marry a Muslim boy.

‘Blame it on Yashraj’ Play on Inter-Religion Marriage

Innovatively mounted, with fast changing video walls as backdrops, every scene and every emotion enhanced with music and dances, hilarious musical parodies of popular Bollywood chartbusters, an ensemble cast of well-know stage and TV artists, with foot tapping musical score of Louis Bank, the play promises to be a laugh a minute roller coaster ride.

The humor in the play comes, not from gags, but from a feeling that’’ I have seen that, I have said that, I have experienced that in my family’’ kind of identification. It’s a mirror to our life being shown on stage.

Choreographer: Hormuzd Khambata

Date & Time: May 1, 2013; 7 pm

Venue: Sophia Auditorium, Sophia College Campus, B.Desai Road, Breach Candy, Mumbai, 400026

Tickets: Rs 500–1500

Language: English

Director: Bharat Dabholkar, Louiz Banks

Writer: Bharat Dabholkar

Cast & Crew: Anant Mahadevan, Jayati Bhatia, Anchal Sabharwal, Punit Tejwani, Smita Hai, Gaurav Sharma, Palash Dutta, Neel Gagdani

Genre: Drama, Play