Well-known
Durban actress, Shika Budhoo, appears in Oh Golly, it’s Bolly! which
opens tonight at the Globe Theatre at Gold Reef City in Johannesburg.
The award-winning South African
choreographer, Jayesperi Moopen, and the Tribhangi Dance Theatre company
present Moopen’s new production of Oh
Golly, it’s Bolly!
The production promises to take audiences
on a musical journey down memory lane with carefully compiled movie songs in a
production that features live music by renowned singers Roselyn Mangar and
Suraj Jewan and songs full of banter and beats in Hindi, Tamil and Telegu.
Dancer Nicol Sheraton is one of a number of professional dancers drawn from all
over South Africa who make up the rest of the cast.
Oh
Golly, it’s Bolly! is a celebration of the magic of
Indian cinema spanning a period from the 1970s to present. Homage is paid to
the Bollywood greats through storytelling, song and dance that is central to
all Indian Cinema. The show will appeal to audiences of all ages.
Describing
herself as “being on board as comedienne-actress”, Durban-born actress, writer,
and director Shika Budhoo graduated in 2005 from The University of KwaZulu-Natal
with a BA Honours (cum laude) in Drama and Performance Studies. Since then she
has appeared in numerous productions such as Macbeth; To House; Spice 'n Stuff; The Looney Lahnee Show; Jimbo; Sunghursh; her self-written one-woman
show Shika-land! and Twelve (which both performed at The
National Arts Festival in Grahamstown) as well as Beswitched and What You
Laughing At?
She is
well-known for her role as Mrs Singh Song in the former LotusFM hit comedy
series Lollipop Lane by Clinton
Marius. She has since worked closely with Marius in The Fantastical Flea Circus (for which she won a Mercury Durban
Theatre Award) and i-Puppeti.
Oh
Golly, it’s Bolly! runs at Gold Reef City’s Globe
Theatre until March 31. Booking is at Computicket. The production is funded by
the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund (NLDTF).
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