When Rumi meets Manto

The euphoria around Rumi and Manto in the past two decades has made them literary pop-icons. Once upon a time, Bombay 2017, Rumi and Manto bump into each other at a Lit-Fest, in the company of Karan Johar and Chetan Bhagat. They are curious about the world’s new found love for them. Manto is visiting from hell, assumingly, and Rumi from heaven. Manto is angry and Rumi is accepting and amused as well, more by Manto.
()is set to take stage at Atta Galatta on March 2 (3.30 pm). Rumi Aur Manto, a solo performance by Mohit Sharma, is a comic and sarcastic look at the society we all form. It also attempts to understand as to what it takes to be an artist through the works of these two greats.