Prateik Babbar essays gay cricketer in adaptation of classic play

Updated On: 20 July, 2016 09:03 AM IST | | Suprita Mitter

<p>An adaptation that gives LB Hamilton's classic A Midnight Clear, a Mumbaiyya twist, with Bollywood actor Prateik Babbar as one of the leads portraying a gay IPL cricketer, opens next week</p>

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(From left) Suhail Sidhwani, Prateik Babbar and Jeff Goldberg

A new play titled 6, based on the play, A Midnight Clear by LB Hamilton tells the story of two lovers — a former IPL cricket star and the wealthy owner of an IPL team. The gay lovers have not seen each other in a year but are thrust together once again after one is brutally attacked and raped. In the course of an evening, they rediscover their love for one another and also why they can never be together. “The original story is set in the 1940s in New York. We wanted to give it an Indian context. We re-wrote the story, setting it in Mumbai and working on the back-stories of the characters, their professions, lifestyle and other small details,” shares director and writer Jeff Goldberg.