“Fight for what is rightfully yours,” Laila’s mother instructs her from her deathbed. So off she goes across the country to Bombay to find her estranged film director father, Din Dayal (Chirag Rao), and become a Bollywood star. But even with such a grand mission at its centre, Sâmir Bhamra’s new musical struggles to secure a place in the limelight.
Written as the 50th show for the company Phizzical, the production wavers between paying homage to 70s Bollywood cinema and trying to fight its outdated culture. Sadly, neither of these aims emerge triumphant.
