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D’Arranged Marriage UNITED STATES show listings

NEW YORK CITY SEASON EXTENSION ANNOUNCED
7 MORE SHOWS. HURRY BOOK NOW!

• September 9 + 23 @ 9pm • October 7 + 21 @ 9pm
• November 12 @ 9pm • December 3 + 17 @ 9pm

Playing at the Triad NYC

BOOKINGS: 212-352-3101 or 866-811-4111 (toll free)
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LOS ANGELES August 4th & 11th, 8pm @ The Greenway Court Theatre
Buy TICKETS ONLINE at either www.greenwayarts.org or
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Those Indian Guys Featured on Asia Profile in New York!
In June 2010, Raj was interviewed about D'Arranged Marriage in New York. In this interview from the Profile team, he goes on and on and on and on about himself and Tarun. Make sure you get a cup of tea for this one.

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Check out Tarun from Those Indian Guys strutting his stuff to Farmer Pimps, Like No-one Else music video. A one piece never looked so good!
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Tarun brings D'Arranged Marriage to LA!
"I still can't believe Fisher Stevens played an
Indian in Short Circuit. I am coming to L.A.
for Patrick Dempsey's career. It's Payback!"

- Tarun Mohanbhai
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Time Out New York logoD'Arranged Marriage featured in Time Out New York online, in an article on Kiwi culture in NYC! To check out the article, click here.
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Kal Penn snobs megastar Raj Varma!

Raj Varma is interviewed by Word on the Street about being snobbed by Kal Penn.

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  An interview for Word on the Street with Crescent Street Films about what Raj and New Yorkers thought of the word play.
   
 
  Those Indian Guys surveyed New Yorkers about the meaning of the word cricket.
Those Indian Guys take on Time Out New York - Cricket Controversy!

The Time Out New York listing of D'Arranged Marriage describes it as being: "... about an Indian stand-up comic who discovers that his long-dreaded arranged marriage might be cricket after all."

We felt the use of the word "cricket" was confusing. Time Out NY did not want to change the word... They told us that: 'Cricket' is a synonym for 'fair play' or 'honorable conduct.' So if something that seemed unfair turns out to be cricket, it means it actually works out fine. If you don't understand that, don't blame [us]. It's not an 'inaccurate' summary of the show as it has otherwise been described to us. It's merely a turn of phrase that you don't seem to like."

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D'Arranged Marriage receives stellar review in nytheatre.com!
After a five month sold-out run in Soho in New York in 2009, and two sold-out shows in Edison New Jersey, D'Arranged Marriage receives a great review in nytheater.com! Read the full www.nytheater.com review by Martin Denton (May 14, 2010) below.

Meet Sanjay Gupta. He's 29 and a happy-go-lucky sort of fellow. He works in his parents' convenience store and harbors dreams of becoming a standup comic. But generally all is going well...until his father meets with Mr. Dave Patel and arranges a match between Sanjay and Mr. Patel's daughter, Neenu.

And then Sanjay meets Neenu...and falls head-over-heels in love with her.

D'Arranged Marriage chronicles this charmer of a love story, richly mining the Indian background of the tale while reveling in everything that makes it universal. It's performed by the inordinately talented Rajeev Varma, who co-wrote the play with director Tarun Mohanbhai. It's enormous fun: a grand showcase for Varma, who is a splendid mimic, physical comedian, and dancer in addition to being a fine actor; and it's also a sweet, lovely, and good-humored story of love against the odds that turns out well. This is the perfect show for date night.

Varma, in the guise of his alter ego Sanjay, narrates the show, and also plays all of the characters in it: smart and tentative Neenu, "Johnny Walker's best friend" Mr. Patel, both of Sanjay's overbearing parents, Sanjay's sleazy friend Rundeep, and, hilariously, an old Indian woman who uses a walker who makes two unforgettable cameo appearances in the story. Varma's movements are precise and skillful: when Sanjay visits the Patels' home for the first time, for example, he has an encounter with a freshly-waxed plastic upholstery cover that's dead-on and very funny. Another favorite moment comes when Sanjay realizes he is in love with Neenu—I don't want to give it away, but it embraces the contemporary cliches of love-at-first-sight with unabashed joy.

Varma is ingratiating, warm, and skillful and he deserves a big career here in the U.S. (he's originally from New Zealand). Meanwhile, I highly recommend this delightful, modest solo show: Varma and his creation, Sanjay, are great to spend time with.

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