Catch Calendar and Bandit Queen at Juhu

You should be at Prithvi Theatre this evening to catch a bunch of impromptu performers read out poetry, act and sing, before you settle in to Watch Satish Kaushik and Seema Biswas in Salesman Ramlal, a play that's back after running to packed houses 6 years ago

Director Feroz Abbas Khan's Salesman Ramlal starring funnyman (remembered best as Calendar from Mr India) and Bollywood director Satish Kaushik and actress Seema Biswas, returns after a hiatus of six years. The man behind award-winning plays Saalgirah, Tumhari Amrita and Mahatma vs Gandhi, says this Hindi adaptation of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is special thanks to the fact that although a classic, it continues to hold relevance.

Funnyman Satish Kaushik turns into a middle-aged salesman, with wife Seema Biswas in Salesman Ramlal, an adaptation of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

"It's a work that's very close to my heart. Satish (Kaushik) and I were keen to bring it back. Although it's set in 1949 in America, and the action of the play takes place largely inside the Loman home in Brooklyn, technically, it's about the concerns of any middle-class man," says Khan.

How does he deal with a world where every dialogue is based on money and commerce, and continue to keep his moral values intact? is the question the play raises. Adapted by Imtiaz Hussain, the play centers around Ramlal, a middle-class salesman who is hounded by payments he has agreed to make in installments. With the onset of computerisation, he fears losing his job. Amusing in parts, poignant in patches, but always sensitive, the script introduces you to a man's dilemma when he realises that his skills, and he have become obsolete.

At: 9 pm, Prithvi Theatre, opposite Janki Kutir, Juhu.
Call: 26149546.
From: September 22 to 26.
Tickets: Rs 80 to Rs 150.
It usually runs to packed houses, so rush to make a booking