When someone else decides your life, then you find yourself tied up. Money, and A life of comfort also starts to hurt you after a time. Arun and Arvind is two young characters in the play. Arvind trying to appease his family in their expectations of a Chartered Accountant’s salaried life, and trying to keep up his passion for dance. His best friend, Manik, is, on the other hand, someone who has been able to break away from the cudgels of a routine life, and follow his calling to be a journalist. Their daily routine ends in a street corner tea shop, run by Chaman chaiwallah. The tea shop is the meeting place of other faces of the middle class:
Working in a high-profile newspaper office as a reporter, Manik decides to stroll through a part of Delhi’s underbelly, the jhuggi (slums), Articulate their lives turn out a nightmare to him. Putting government in cage, Manik have to resign.
Another hand, Arvind’s family plot his marriage according to the market value that their son can fetch in the dowry bazaar. The ‘deal’ falls through when Arvind announces that he has quit his job.Together, Manik and Arvind pick up the pieces and start afresh, Manik starts his small one-pager and Arvind starts teaching dance to whoever wished to learn!
Azam Qadri panned well by showing that the middle class needs to look within itself to transform society. It needs to give up its search for security and look instead, for a fulfilling life in pursuit of the tiny bit of blue sky which will help them fly.