Beyond Bollywood

After a sell-out season in Mumbai, new musical Beyond Bollywood is set to get theatregoers in London doing the ‘pigeon-head’ as the show arrives at the Palladium for a run of performances in May and June.

The show’s story revolves around an old woman’s dying wish for her daughter living in Munich to visit the family’s homeland in India. Stories in Bollywood epics are usually accompanied with the riot of dance, music and colour — all of which are promised here in a show conceived by several big Bollywood names.

The musical is written, choreographed and directed by Rajeev Goswami who has been both a pop star and choreographer in Mumbai, while the book is by Irfan Siddiqui, one of India’s most famous lyricists who has a string of Bollywood film credits and has also worked on Hindi translations of the first two High School Musical films