'Crazy about Mistaken Identity. I think it's absolutely brilliant…' --Harold
Pinter
The year is 1929, India is torn by strikes, and the British Raj is close to
panic: Bhushan Singh, the purposeless son of a minor Raja is charged with
treason and thrown into jail. As the months awaiting trial stretch into years,
the apolitical Bhushan entertains his communist cellmates with tales of his
world: of his veiled mother; of his very modern Parsee girlfriend; of the
American flapper who taught him the Turkey Trot; of his forbidden boyhood affair
which ignited two murderous Hindu-Muslim riots and led to his banishment abroad.
A complex work, Mistaken Identity