Beyond Bollywood, An Acclaimed Musical And Lavish Spectacle, Now Daily At Global Village

Global Village, the region’s first multicultural festival park, and family destination for culture, shopping and entertainment, has announced that Beyond Bollywood, the acclaimed musical drama and lavish spectacle, will play at its Main Cultural Stage daily till the end of Season 22. The musical’s story explores the tussle between East and West, tradition and modernity, for young urban Indians, but what we see is mostly a fairy tale.

Beyond Bollywood is a Munich to Mumbai epic, and arrives in the UAE after tens of hit performances in Europe, Asia and Africa. It has played 60 house full shows in London’s West End, 14 performances in Algeria, 19 across Europe and 50 performances in India before arriving for the first time in the region exclusively at Global Village. Enormously popular on social media, the show already has 3 million social media impressions, more than 10,000 Facebook likes and 300,000 tweets and re-tweets.

The show is performed with 30 of the best Bollywood performers glittering with more than 1,500 piece of jewelries and accessories and more than 500 costumes changed over 25 minutes of the finest Bollywood performances and melodies.

The show’s story revolves around ShailyShergill played by Ana Ilmi, who leaves behind her home in Munich, Germany to a journey to Mumbai, India in the hope of fulfilling her mother’s dying wish, to revive her family’s failing theatre. There, she rekindles her roots and sets about the seemingly insurmountable task ahead of her. Having rediscovered the richness of Indian tradition, Shaily returns to Munich, where she and the hero, Raghav played by Mohit Mathur, acquire an old theatre. They create a new musical that hymns Indian tradition while teasing us with western-influenced numbers. The show is performed with great style to the charming music of Salim and Sulaiman Merchant with the costumes provide a glittering kaleidoscope.Stories in Bollywood epics are accompanied with the riot of dance, music and colour — all of which are plentiful in this show conceived by several big Bollywood names.