Bunty Berman Presents
Opening Night: April 8, 2013
Closing: June 1, 2013
Theater: Acorn Theatre
Set in a failing 1950s Bollywood studio, with songs in the style of Hollywood’s Golden Age, this sparkling new musical comedy is from Ayub Khan Din, author of The New Group hits East is East and Rafta, Rafta. Movie producer Bunty Berman’s studio has long been the toast of Bombay, but now Raj, his biggest star and best friend, is beginning to lose his sparkle. When their new movie fails, Bunty must navigate through divas, mobsters and ambitious tea-boys to keep his studio alive.
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May 10, 2013
Though it sounds as if it should be a hoot, “Bunty Berman Presents …” is mostly only a whimper. Watching the New Group’s amiable but listless musical sendup of Indian moviemaking, which opened on Thursday night at the Acorn Theater, you can discern the reproachful outlines of the bigger, brasher and more satisfyingly outrageous show it might have been.
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