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Hindi-English Theatre Review Johnson Thomas Play: Dad’s Girlfriend Cast: Satyendra Malik, Suman Vaidya, Anumeha Jain, Karishma Singh Director: Atul Satya Koushik Writer: Atul Satya Koushik, Rating: * * ½ Playtime: 130 mins After a successful opening in Delhi, Atul Satya Koushik’s new play, a sitcom, ‘Dad’s Girlfriend’ opens in Mumbai to decent crowds. Staged by one of Delhi’s leading theatre groups, The Films and Theatre Society, and promoted by Kaushik’s frequent marketing collaborator Coconut Theatre, ‘Dads Girlfriend’ is an urban family drama that hopes to get you cackling with it’s frequent resort to slapstick. Written and directed by Atul Satya Koushik, this play which is daringly different from his largely mythological ( Chakravyuh, Draupadi, Raavan Ki Ramayan) oeuvre hopes to grab the eyeballs of millennia’s facing similar situations on the home-front. The writing though is a little too heavy-duty to be credited as an out and out comedy. There’s neither dep