Battles with daydreams

The stars wander perilously close in Sneh Sapru’s Hello Farmaaish, sometimes twinkling with hope, sometimes caving into a dark hole of despair. “It is essentially a play for those who dream and the zeitgeist that works against such spirit,” says the screenwriter and playwright. But at its core, the dark, clever narrative set in rural Haryana which has been shortlisted for The Hindu Playwright Award 2018, is the story of “a bunch of seemingly common folk, who dream with reckless abandon, and quickly realise there are consequences,” says Sapru, whose 2017 Elephant in the Room won three META awards — Best Actor female, Lighting Design and Costumes — and was nominated for Best Original Script too.