Dastan-e-Chouboli This dastan is an adaptation of Vijaydan Detha`s version of the Rajasthani folktale. Princess Chauboli has vowed that she will only marry a man who can make her speak four times in one night. Seventeen times twenty-four princes have tried and failed and are now rotting in the dungeon grinding fodder for horses. A brave and valiant Thakur, one who shoots 108 arrows through his wife`s nose-ring every day, wishes to try his luck. What happens to him? How will Chouboli be won? Containing a story within a story within a story, some of them pan India favorites, Chouboli is a funny, bitter, sarcastic, and lyrical take on Indian life.- COMEDY  

Directed by Mahmood Farooqui

Produced by Anusha Rizvi

About Performers  

Syed Shadab Hussain is the Head - Operations, at Programmes Department, India Habitat Centre. His awareness of the production management ecosystem in performing arts makes him an uncompromising professional and a delightful collaborator. The stimulating cultural evenings at Habitat centre draws upon his managerial skills to make things work. 

Meera Rizvi is an engineer turned scriptwriter turned dastango. She has worked extensively in Television content and has most fun working in the interstices between various fields and/or thoughts. She has always believed in the power of storytelling and is now trying her hand at telling a few tales herself.