The Bhopalites witnessed an interesting series of twists and turns in a light hearted comedy play Miss Aloowalia, staged here on Monday at Shaheed Bhawan. Notably, the play was staged on the third day of 8th Complete Theatre Festival organised by Nav Nritya Natya Sanstha.
Directed by a noted theatre director of the city Mohan Diwedi, the play was presented by Mandap Theatre Group.
The play is an adaptation of a Bengali play written by Shekhar Chhatterjee.
Based on two friends Sameer and Pyarelal and the love of their lives the story is a light hearted comedy that made the audiences laugh their hearts out.
The play follows the love life of both the boys and twists and turns that screwd up their love life by a small lie.
Both the boys fell in love with girls of their choice and want to get married.
But the problem arises when the fathers of both the girls dream to wed their daughters to wealthy, handsome and a distinguished personality of the city.
As this news reaches the boys Sameer and Pyarelal, they decide to call Pyarelal’s aunt Miss Aloowalia who is a rich pretty woman. She owes the business of potatoes and is one of the richest business women of her town.
Soon Pyarelal sends a message to her aunt and describes about the entire situation, but due to her bad health she denies to visit them.
Now here is introduced the male protagonist of the play Pratik who is one of the friends of Sameer. In the college annual day, they see Pratik dressed up like a girl and soon they decided to ask help from him.
Pyarelal and Sameer ask Pratik to act like Pyarelal’s aunt Miss Aloowalia before the fathers of their
girlfriends and for the sake of friendship Pratik helps them.
The comical situation arises when both the old men fell for the fake Miss Aloowalia and soon the real Miss Aloowalia shows up. The whole mess brings Pratik into trouble as with Miss Aloowalia, arrive his girlfriend too. The play had situational comedy and the audience enjoyed it a lot.