It tells the riveting story of the interaction between a Muslim refugee family that migrates from Lucknow in India to Lahore in Pakistan and the mother of a Hindu refugee family who is somehow left behind when others in her family leave for India, he says.

The play will be dedicated to millions of Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs who were killed or displaced by British India's 1947 Partition would also be a tribute to Habib Tanvir, a pioneer in Urdu, Hindi Indian theatre, who died recently, Agnihotri said. It was Tanvir who first brought the play into limelight in 1992.

The performance also celebrates the 20th anniversary of the play that is soon being turned into a Bollywood movie by Raj Kumar Santoshi, he said.

(Arun Kumar can be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in)