BOMBAY: Right now Bombay is swinging! A humorous, naughty and of course, political play has been a theatrical sensation there.
Last Tango in Heaven is the story of a Congressman’s journey into heaven and how he promptly sows dissidence against Indira.
The voices have always been there the choir voices trained and ready to take on the theatrical world. It is danced by girls in black waist high slits.
First, there was Jesus Christ Superstar redone by legendary Alyque Padamsee, followed by, Evita, also a musical, Westside ‘Story and Are You Lonesome Tonight were both only a whisper.
The new play has come when city’s theater enthusiasts had tired of Broadway humor, the trite Oxford accents and the same bedroom farce under different names.
Characters speaking desk English with Marathi, U.P., or South Indian accents descended on the scene.
Fertilizing Polls! A Calcutta economic newspaper has come by this sensational item in Green Markets, a weekly published by McGraw Hill, New York. Announcing that India is in the market to buy fertilizer the trade journal says that intending sellers have been solicited to pay between $3 and $35 per ton towards election and contribution. Fertilizer import is done through the State owned Minerals and Metals Trading Corporation (MMTC),. Is payment of kickbacks canalized through this body?
Article extracted from this publication >> August 11, 1989
