BOTH celebratory and melancholy, cacophonous yet tightly choreographed, Shiv Tandan's play The Good, The Bad And The Sholay is a triumph of meta-storytelling.

Directed by Tandan himself with his mentor Huzir Sulaiman, the play splices Tandan's real-life memories of growing up in India and moving to Singapore with glorious action and romance sequences from one of the biggest Indian movies of all time, Sholay.

Sholay, if you don't know, is a Bollywood classic. It tells the story of two small-time crooks (played by Dharmendra and Amitabh Bachchan) who are summoned by a retired policeman to go after a nefarious criminal for a reward.