Tender of the wonder

What would have been the fate of Shahjahan’s Taj Mahal had the emperor lived in the present times? Taj Mahal Ka Tender,  a play that was staged at Sri Ram Centre yesterday narrated how, if the Taj  Mahal were to be built today, the bureaucratic machinery would never let it build. 

The play written by Ajay Shukla and directed by SP Singh Senger is a hilarious burlesque. It also looks at how corruption at every level of governance would make it difficult, even impossible, to execute something of this kind. 

The persistent Shahjahan, in no mood to accept excuses for delays, and sends the somnolent Government construction department into tizzy. 

The engineers and overseers get down to business to fulfill emperors wish, as if they really could. An outbreak of activities ensues but in a typical sarkari manner. 

Tenders are issued. Contractors are hired. But, does the project see light of the day? Or, does the mogul emperor, fast forwarded in time, become a victim of the system himself? Whatever may happen to the wonder tomb, but it was a lofty laughter castles as the curtains came down of  Taj Mahal ka Tender.