. “Other characters who are afflicted by this don’t shove it under the rug; they make decisions in their own lives that reflect that they will not accept this behavior, which we didn’t have before.”
The abuse storyline is an intense, well-acted gut-punch. With some dashes of prior signposting, it fully flashes into life near the end, inevitably capsizing everything around it and is then strangely resolved , and then shunted aside in a dash for a colorful, music and dance-filled happy ending.—with excellent costumes by Arjun Bhasin—begins promisingly.
A secondary romance, comprising broader comedy and general ebullience, occurs between wedding planner PK Dubey and the Vermas’ maid, Alice . This has a few sparky numbers attached to it, including one set to a harum-scarum train ride and horse pursuit, using the best of David Bengali’s on-stage projections. The song, “Aunties Are Coming,” featuring all the female characters, is another audience-pleaser, until the male characters annoyingly enter, and cut it dead.
Why, in 2023, in a musical set in India—where consensual intercourse between adults of the same sex was only decriminalized in 2018, and whereis presently pending—is a probably-gay character being as cagily written as this? If there was a reconsideration and rewriting of female roles, why not of Varun too? He is beached between figure of campy fun, and the misty narrative territory of...
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