SONS OF BABUR (*ing TOM ALTER & others) November 3, 2012

Pierrot’s Troupe (Delhi) Presents
Salman Khurshid’s
SONS OF BABUR
(Hindustani -- 29th Show)
NOV 3 (Sat), 7pm, Y B CHAVAN Auditorium
Jagannath Bhosale Marg (Opp Mantralaya), Mumbai - 400021
Script – Salman Khurshid, Ather Farouqui
Direction - Dr M Sayeed Alam
Duration- 1:45 hrs
Featuring Tom Alter, Hareesh Chhabra, Anju Chhabra,Yashraj Malik, Ram N Diwakar, Manohar Pandey, Surbhi Pandey, M Sayeed Alam, Ahmad Omair, Himanshu Srivastava, Manish Singh, Puneet Sikka, Charu Sharma, Prakhar Chhabra, Rajesh Singh etc.

Original, incisive and topical – this is what Pierrot’s plays are characterized for. So this time around the troupe brings to you Salman Khurshid’s ‘SONS OF BABUR’; virtually a revisit to the era and aura of the Mughols. In addition, Salman Khurshid, in his theatre debut, has superimposed ‘a search for India’, on that identity issue of ‘Sons of Babur’.
The playwright’s intellectual search takes him back in time to the Mughal era. The central character of the play is Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor, languishing in exile in far away Rangoon. In the present times, he has an ardent admirer in Rudranshu Sengupta the protagonist, a university student of history. Rudranshu is so obsessed with the life of the last Mughal that he has a virtual supernatural to experience that transports him to meet Bahadur Shah Zafar in person. From then on the play swings between fantasy and reality, past and present, logic and emotion, fact and fiction. Rudranshu is taken on a guided tour by Bahadur Shah Zafar through various milestone events of the Mughal era. They effortlessly slide into the world of Babur, Humayun, Akbar, Jahangir, Shahjahan and Aurangzeb, all seen directing the course of medieval India or Hindustan.
As the play progresses, one cannot but in turn be enamoured by the benevolence of the Mughals, feel disgust at their ambition, become fearful of their cruelty and also admire their ability to unite diverse populations into an entity called Hindustan. With this is emphasized the understanding that India is a collage of cultures and nothing remains alien here, including foreigners who make this land their home:

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