Today, as you settle down to watch the Hindi adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at Prithvi Theatre, you could expect drama, unrequited love and happy reunions, characteristic to the original. But don’t be surprised by the Bollywood-isation in Piya Behrupiya — actors breaking into song and dance, twins separated at birth, mistaken identities, and sword fights. And it all went well when the group, led by director Atul Kumar, performed the same adaptation at the World Shakespeare Festival in London this April.

Atul Kumar’s Hindi adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night was also staged at the World Shakespeare Festival in London this April