Ever since the overblown ‘wedding video’ that was Hum Aapke Hain Koun became a blockbuster, the Indian wedding has become a popular plot device, or at least backdrop, for a succession of Bollywood movies. It’s surprising that mainstream theatre (such as it is) did not pick up the trend — it has scope for song and dance, romance, emotions and comedy.

Mercifully, Purva Naresh has not taken the Bollywood shortcut in Ladies Sangeet. There is a lot of music, but thanks to Shubha Mudgal, it is traditional folk and semi-classical