Namak Mirchi - Play May 14, 2009

Namak Mirchi - Play. Writer: Shaukat Tanvi. Director: Shivani Tankshale & Sumeet Vyas. The play is a hilarious dramatization of four short stories by the famous Pakistani satirist Shaukat Thanvi. The chosen stories are Daulat Khana (about the false pretences we maintain with regards to our wealth and status), Be (about our blind faith in astrology), Namak Mirch (a dig at matchmaking, and the way we ape western culture) and Zara Tarranum Se (a humorous look at the art of shaayri). These are interweaved by an eccentric narrator, and are interspersed with comic poetry and even a qawwali.

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