About The Event
In a tiny café of Mumbai, Asha Parekh - a failed actress from Surat - answers a ringing phone that belongs to a dead man, Max. This innocent act pulls her into the many lives Max leaves behind: Leo, his naive younger brother; Anna, his Goan wife holding together fragile truths; KGB, his formidable Russian mother; Razia, his lover from Hyderabad; and DD, a Bengali woman from his shadowy business world.
As Asha continues answering Max’s calls, she begins to speak in his place - offering comfort, dodging questions, and more often than not, inventing stories. The phone takes her across Mumbai - from crowded temples to quiet seafronts - where each encounter is unexpected, awkward, and often darkly comic.
Threading through the play is a narrator, accompanied by a live orchestra, who together shape Asha’s journey through fragments, rhythms, and three recurring songs - a legacy of her father, a radio mechanic. Also present in every scene is Sab Kuchh, appearing in different forms and adding to the chaos of Asha’s journey. Through borrowed conversations and misplaced identities, Asha slowly confronts her own stalled life - and begins, unexpectedly, to move forward.
