Stand up comic Munawar Faruqui performed his show ‘Dongri to Nowhere’ at Shilpakala Vedika on Saturday evening to loud cheers and catcalls from the audience. A dragnet of police presence from early hours around the venue, intense frisking and profiling ensured that there was no disruption to the show despite a threat by Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Raja Singh. However, there were seven attempts to raise slogans, including by a woman, on the main road outside the venue and the miscreants were bundled away by waiting policemen.
Hundreds of policemen guarded the venue in a 200-metre radius, as police sirens wailed intermittently. Traffic under the HiTec City flyover was stopped for some time just before the beginning of the show at 5.30 p.m. adding to evening weekend rush hour in the western part of the city.
