From ‘Salaam Bombay’ to ‘Chakalaka Baby’ to the alluring tune of ‘Chaiyya, Chaiyya’ Chaiyya’, Bombay Dreams – Andrew Lloyd Webber and R.R. Rehman’s musical – manages to keep the audience engrossed in a melodrama based on fabled Indian movie themes of the fight between the good and the evil.
While Bombay Dreams is not as inventive or innovative as one would have expected from the creative skills of Mr. Webber, who after all has hit after hit on Broadway including “Phantom of the Opera” and “Cats’ – but it keeps the …