by Zahid Fayyaz
Cabaret star Shafeeq Shajahan has returned with a retooled and expanded model of his present from final yr on the identical venue. Heavily referencing and influenced by the 1970’s Bollywood movie Satyam Shivam Sundaram, he works along with collaborator and composer Vasilis Konstantinides who can be an exquisite cellist. The present is a have a look at Shajahan’s background rising up as a queer man, the difficulties his religion and spiritual neighborhood introduced, and its position in including to his scars.
In the unique movie, the principle diva is Roopa, a wonderful village woman with an enormous facial scar. She is rejected by her love Rajeev after he marries her. He had fallen in love along with her voice however with out seeing her face. Roopa then will get her revenge after praying to the gods, and there’s the compulsory Bollywood pleased ending. Shajahan attracts on the story for instance his personal ‘scars’ and unhealthy remedy in his childhood.
This is a really entertaining present total, with pretty songs and humorous asides from Shajahan. In specific, “Satyam Shivam Sundaram” is superbly and emotively carried out. The fixed costume modifications helps hold issues propulsive. Overall, that is an entertaining and emotional present and efficiency, and is effectively price watching, both at its present run or in any future life it might deservedly have.
Shafeeq Shajahan: The Bollywood Guide To Revenge runs via 5 April.
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