An English title for a Marathi play doesn't necessarily strike the right note; the mix of Marathi and English (Minglish) sounds worse and often plain wannabe: Dada Ek Good News Aahe. Some titles - Why so Gambheer? - are discordant, while others are out-and-out unimaginatively lifted, like the ongoing, A Perfect Murder. Despite a long-harboured dislike for hybrid kitschy labels, I was drawn to the ad of the two-act Marathi play, Piano for Sale.

The play is an adaptation of the English original of the same name, written by journalist-turned-novelist Meher Pestonji, 72, around 12 years ago. The technical director of Pestonji's English play, Aashish Kulkarni, translated the script in Marathi in 2013. He firmed it up a few months ago, when producers Chaitanya Akolkar and Mamta Sardesai, came together under a newly-formed production company called Digital Detoxx, and decided to put money into an offbeat women-centric drama.