Pramitee narke biography of barack

This robust play depicts the dizzy growth of luxury towers displacing slums in Mumbai and much more. It does this with so much energy, satire, and imagination and theatricality. It is so unlike most other plays. One was gripped from the beginning to end. Todi Mill Fantasy is so unpredictable, that is one of its best qualities. One had thought this may be a routine stereotype about the working class but one is in for a pleasant surprise.

There is a live music band on stage and much of the action takes place at a height, on top of a toilet in fashionable café . Reminded me of the performance of Brecht’s Arturo Ui done by Alyque Padamsee in the early 1970s. And the vigorous music is a reminder of Teen Paishacha Tamasha, another Brecht adaptation directed by Jabbar Patel with Nandu Bhende in the lead role.

Saw the production last evening in an architecturally good looking municipal theatre named most appropriately after Annabhau Sathe, a real hero of working class culture, so prolific and talented and all this with a life of poverty and constant struggle. This was an open air theatre, very close to the Victoria or Jijamata garden. It has a lovely open space with much greenery and there is a prominent fruit

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