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This gay romantic play is unlike any other attempt to normalise homosexuality

Having written and directed several plays about gender, with Shikaayat, 27-year-old Arnesh Ghose focuses on sexuality as filtered through society's ideas about right and wrong.

Arnesh Ghose, a 27-year-old journalist, writer, director, playwright, actor and founder of theatre group The Mirror Merchants, describes his latest play Shikaayat as a "bold, passionate gay romantic comedy".

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