Sundus Jamil, as Khwahish, flees her home-town Avanti, when her passions for music and dance are cut short by societal norms.
Or maybe that’s just the audience obsession to the genre. Perhaps, musical directors assume pulling the Bollywood extravaganza card spells success. That there is no live singing, does not come in the way of the dances meticulously choreographed by Wahab Shah.Īvanti, revolves around ‘Aja Nachle’ (2007), the Hindi comeback for the Brazilian film Xuxu Requebra (1999) in an oddly familiar setting, reminiscent of Madhuri’s thumkas (moves). It is sandwiched between a slew of dance performances, from Rahat Fateh Ali’s gentle ‘O re piya’ to the bhangra number ‘Aiween Aiween’. That’s how interactive the musical is.ĭirected by Flora Mahmood and Javed Saeedi as the producer, the play sprinkles stardust on set, costume, choreography and dialogue. So what if she’s just a sidekick? She’d traipse down the stage and move it with the odd audience member. If anything, she couldn’t get any more over-the-top than transgendered, clad in a garish, mukesh studded sari and adding that comic value to an otherwise Bollywood-inspired play. Just when you were bored with the Sheila humor, comes an alter ego of the club dancer, with a twist.
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