Bollywood musical heads to Dubai The show is based on a true story. (SUPPLIED) [image: Print story]<http://www.business24-7.ae/Articles/2009/12/Pages/14122009/12152009_ea2bad88e7fa4a0dabc5807675fa2739.aspx#>[image: Contact newspaper editor]<[email protected]?subject=user%20feedback%20comments>[image: Send to a friend] <javascript:Show('sendfrind')> By Staff Writer on Tuesday, December 15, 2009
*The Merchants of Bollywood*, an Australian-produced musical with songs by *Slumdog Millionaire *composer AR Rahman, is to be staged in the Middle East for the first time next month at the Palladium, Dubai Media City. The show has just completed a sell-out international tour that took it to London, Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Frankfurt, Munich, Geneva, Kuala Lumpur and Paris. *The Times of London *describing the production as a "high-octane pleasure". The show is based on the true story of Ayesha Merchant, the granddaughter of Shantilal Merchant, one of Bollywood's most respected choreographers from the Hindi film industry's golden era http://www.business24-7.ae/Articles/2009/12/Pages/14122009/12152009_ea2bad88e7fa4a0dabc5807675fa2739.aspx - Regards ~ ~ A.R.Rajib ~ ~

