Edge Of The Seat Comedy

Considered to be one of the longest running plays on the world stage, the Hinglish slapstick Run for your wife is a laugh riot and gives one ample of ROFL moments. The Indian adaptation of the play directed by Rishi Mehta, was recently staged in Delhi at Alliance Francaise, last weekend. 

Originally written by Ray Cooney, this British farce, which is produced by <g data-gr-id="18">Mudita</g> Mehta and presented by Behroopiya Entertainers, has been skillfully modified to suit the theatre palate of the Indian audiences. This hilarious one <g data-gr-id="19">hour-forty</g> minutes adult <g data-gr-id="26">rom-com,</g> is set in the backdrop of South Delhi’s Lajpat Nagar and Defence Colony, outlining the life of taxi driver Sabby Gill, who unknowingly committed bigamy. Everything seems to fall in place for Sabby until one fine day when a head injury makes his life go topsy-turvy and his ‘schedule’ gets disturbed. 

What then follows is a journey with <g data-gr-id="22">stratagem</g> of false stories and concoction of a web of lies, which takes the audience on a roller coaster ride of laughter. The storyline goes as such that Sabby Gill, a taxi driver living in South Delhi, has two addresses, one in Lajpat Nagar and one in Defence colony with the same house number but with two different women living in them, both being his wives named Kuljeet and Mona respectively. Kuljeet Gill, who is a quintessential, dominating Punjabi wife, stays with Sabby at their Lajpat Nagar residence while Mona Gill, the hot and sexy, ultra-modern wife resides at Defence Colony. Everything is fine until one day after witnessing an accident, trouble lands at Sabby’s feet and his schedule of maintaining two <g data-gr-id="20">wives,</g> gets messed up. 

The play that started with a predictable vibe, progressed by maintaining an edge of the moment factor and kept the audience glued to their seats. However, it got a little monotonous in between with the scenes ricocheting from the projected path of the storyline, which compelled a few to leave their seats. 

However, the deviation did not last for long, as the play got back on track in no time, and the roars of laughter and sound of claps resumed in the theatre. The last scene, which showed Sabby accepting his mistake and blurting out the truth, seemed predictable for a moment, but turned out to be quite unexpected and waggish with the entry of a third person, another woman, claiming to be his ‘wife’. 

The ending saw a rendition of a Bollywood song which was clumsily performed by the actors themselves and did not go with the flow of the earlier performances.