Boston was treated to a special theatrical treat on Mother's day when Paresh Rawl presented a Comedy-Thriller CHAALBAAZ.Over 650 people attended the event.

The play was based on the book “There is Always a Price Tag” by James Hadley Chase. The play featured other leading artists’ including Feroz Irani, a popular villain of Gujarati cinema and brother of yet another versatile actress Aruna Irani, Sunila Karambelkar a very popular artist of Marathi TV serial ,and Hetal (Rinku) Patel who is a very popular model/actress. The play was about a man, Paresh Rawal, who will do anything for 25 crore rupees including committing a crime. Once the crime is committed then he tries to make clever moves to beat the law and trick the lawyer. The considerable comic talent of Paresh Rawal kept the audience laughing though the play.

Key quotes from the play were:
"I tried to make it in films. I could not get a chota mota role, not even in Ramayana jahan kitne bandar hai" - Paresh
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime"
"You are my fortune so where is the crime"

This was Paresh Rawal’s third play in the Boston area after Shaadi@Barbaadi.com in 2001 and Naughty@Forty.com in 2003. The play was brought to us courtesy of Eshani Patel and was sponsored by Bollywood Grill Restaurant of Andover, MA.

Lokvani had a chance to talk to a number of people in the audience and everyone  praised the show and the organizers. The only comment was “Everyone knows Paresh Rawal. However, it would have been nice if he had introduced the other artists in the play to the audience.”

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