IHC Theatre Festival 2025. Khichik (Hindi/ 100 mins with interval). Wri. Shiv Subrahmanyam. Dir. Divya Jagdale. Produced by Kumud Mishra. Cast. Girija Oak Godbole and Ghanshyam Lalsa. The play is a funny, tender and warm look at a relationship. A delightful romp through three decades. A relationship seen over forty-five years. The protagonists, Pooja Khanna and Sanjeev Menon meet first as college students. Finding themselves falling in love, they go through classes, raves, parents, history, economics, modeling and the future. They finally go their own ways as college ends and life beckons. The second act catches them as a married couple, he a liberal, left – leaning professor, and she is corporate middle management. Their marriage is turbulent and ends in divorce. The third act finds them hitting sixty. Their children have grown up. He has become a vulnerable old man, respected for his uncompromising defiance of human rights abuses, and she runs her own small publishing firm. They meet and catch up... Prod. D for Drama. Tickets at Rs.200, Rs.350 & Rs.500 are available on bookmyshow.com and at the Habitat Programmes desk. Late entry is strictly prohibited.