Once you’ve fallen deeply in love, not even societal objections can come in the way,” says Om Katare, writer and director of Yeh Jo Dil Hai Na. And that is the essence of his Hindi play, which premieres on August 9 at Juhu’s Prithvi Theatre.

Produced by theatre group Yatri Productions, the play is a love story spread over two generations. When the parents of a young girl find out that she’s getting married the very next day, they both have starkly different reactions. While her mother violently objects, her father, a professor, is much calmer about the situation. The irony of the situation is that the parents had eloped too.