'Clone Banega Crorepati' staged at Alliance Française, Chennai.
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Theatre Marina’s Clone Banega Crorepati (written by Vedarun Rajkumar; directed by R. Giridharan) is, as the title suggests, a play about cloning. But it isn’t a serious play on the ethics of cloning. It is a one-and-a-half-hour laugh riot on cloning gone wrong.Shanmugam (Girish Kumar) is developing a bio-programmable clone. His wife, Bhagavathi (Sukanya), wonders if he even remembers that he is married, because he hasn’t given her even a hug in ages. Shanmugam’s friend Palam Parthiban, or PP for short (Arun Venugopal), comes up with a plan to help Shanmugam make money.
Director R. Giridharan handles the onstage chaos deftly, ensuring that the mounting madness remains coherent as well as relentlessly funny.
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