Hu, Raju Ne Ruksana

HUN RAJU NE RUKSANA is supposed to be a hilarious musical comedy, reflective of incidents that are a part of life. The hero of the play Raju Rajgor is a young boy who has moved to Mumbai from Ahemdabad. He holds a job in a co-operative bank. Though he has settled in Mumbai, he still possesses the miserliness, a trait commonly attributed to the Ahemdabadis.

Raju has a friend named Kalapi Keriwala who is a scriptwriter, actor, director, producer- in short, a jack of all but master of none. But Kalapi becomes the quintessential genie for Raju when he falls in love with a beautiful girl whom he sees on the set of one of Kalapi’s tele-serials. His joy is short-lived when he realizes that the girl, Ruksana Karim Lala is a Muslim. Ruksana too objects seeing Raju when she becomes aware of he being a Hindu. It is Kalapi who then tries to make them see reason and not make religion an issue. Similarly, he helps both of them get married despite opposition from the two lovers’ families.

Raju and Ruksana eventually marry but their marriage does not last. Twenty years after their separation the two meet. What follows leads to the climax of the play...