Meherzad Patel

Review of play The Devil wears Bataa: A bold fun political satire

The best part of theatre is that it is much more politically freer than TV and cinema. Take the play, The Devil wears Bataa, written and directed by Meherzad Patel, currently running in Mumbai. Can you imagine a verbose Mahmohan Singh? Well, that is how the silent former prime minister is shown in this 2-hour presentation. The setting is pre-2014 Delhi, where Sonia Gandhi (Dilnaz Irani) is trying to groom dumb beta, Rahul (Siddharth Merchant) as the next PM. But here, Paaji (Danesh Irani as MMS) plays his own game, more about that later. On a parallel plane, you also have Wash | Click Here...