ALI J

Ali J's story navigates the terrain of individual desire and national suspicion. It breaks down a man into his component parts, none of which stick. In a time when bodies are being hanged and mauled, it maintains that this body holds all identities and yet, holds none. The play talks of the Indian identity today, in the light of the shadow cast upon it from the Partition in 1947. Ali J is not the story of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, but the story of Azim Ali J, a Muslim in India.