Mahim Junction - English Play By Sohaila Kapur: Events in Hyderabad

REVIEW FOR MAHIM JUNCTION - ENGLISH...

The Qadir Ali Baig Foundation is organizing its annual Theatre Festival from the 27th October, which will continue till 12th November. The festival is a tribute to the Hindustani theatre personality, the late Qadir Ali Baig. It forms a part of the Foundation's initiative to revive theatre in town, and was designed by Mohammad Ali Baig, son of Qadir Ali Baig. The German Ministry of Culture, Goethe-Zentrum, Alliance Francaise and Seagram 100 Pipers are all associated with the festival.

As a part of the festival, an English play Mahim Junction will be staged on 29th October, at HICC. The play will begin at 7:30pm.

Directed by Sohaila Kapur, Mahim Junction is a mix of nostalgia and cinema, and is set in the '70s. Supported by Lata Bhasin and renowned filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, the English musical showcases a time when heroes wore their hearts on their sleeves and rich villains puffed cigars in the mean streets of Mumbai.

The story is set in a slum that has encroached on a disused local train platform in suburban Mumbai. The motley crowd that inhabits the slum are Rahim, the local dada and good Samaritan, who is in love with Radha, the local belle who dreams of becoming a film heroine.

There is Bai, her harridan mother, who would rather sell her daughter to a lascivious old priest than allow her to marry the love of her life, Rahim, who is poor. The greed for money is concealed under the garb of religious differences. Then there is Ramu, Radha