Rafta, Rafta...

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Original poster for the NT production

Rafta, Rafta... is a comedy by the British Asian playwright Ayub Khan-Din. It is based on All in Good Time, a 1963 play by Bill Naughton. Set in the working-class English town of Bolton, the play tells the story of marital difficulties within an immigrant Indian family. Eeshwar Dutt is a first-generation immigrant and patriarch of the family. He has a troubled relationship with his newly-wed son Atul, whose married life with Vina Patel has got off to a rocky start. The play deals with setting out and resolving these various conflicts.

Rafta, Rafta... opened at the National Theatre, Lyttelton in April 2007. Nicholas Hytner directed the inaugural production. Harish Patel played the central role of Eeshwar Dutt, with Meera Syal in the role of his sharp-tongued wife Lopa. The play had a successful run, receiving acclaim from both critics and theatre-goers.

The play opened Off-Broadway at The New Group at Theatre Row on May 8, 2008.

1 Crew
2 Cast
3 Off Broadway
4 Film adaptation
5 References

[edit] Crew

Director: Nicholas Hytner
Designer: Tim Hatley
Lighting Designer: Hugh Vanstone
Music: Niraj Chag
Sound Designer: Paul Groothuis

[edit] Cast

Etash Tailor : Arsher Ali
Jai Dutt : Rudi Dharmalingam
Laxman Patel : Kriss Dosanjh
Vina Patel : Rokhsaneh Ghawam-Shahidi
Molly Bhatt : Natalie Grady
Atul Dutt : Ronny Jhutti
Lata Patel : Shaheen Khan
Jivaj Bhatt : Simon Nagra
Eeshwar Dutt : Harish Patel
Lopa Dutt : Meera Syal

with

Kal Aise
Pooja Ghai
Shiv Grewal
Pooja Shah
Musician : Japjit Kaur
Musician : Sudeep Rao
Musician : Manjeet Rasiya

[edit] Off Broadway

An Off Broadway production of Rafta Rafta opened in New York on May 8, 2008 at the Acorn Theater to good reviews.^[1] The cast includes Ranjit Chowdhury (Eeshwar Dutt), Manish Dayal (Atul Dutt), Sakina Jaffrey (Lopa Dutt, and Reshma Shetty (Vina Patel).