Vivek Oberoi hops onto the platform where any actor’s true mettle is tested. The 33-year-old star is set to act in a musical play penned by none other than the celebrated script-writer and lyricist Javed Akhtar.
Titled ‘Kingdom of Dreams’, the play is Akhtar’s own take on the Hindi cinema of 1950s. It will have Vivek playing a rake, swashbuckling prince and Isha Sharvani, she of the jelly-boned acrobatic dances, playing a princess. Vivek’s second love interest will be played by Gauhar Khan, the feisty secretary of Rocket Singh - Salesman of the Year.
“I guess I’m a very lucky guy...I get to woo both these ladies,” Vivek is quoted as saying in a media report.
The play will open in May this year at the live-entertainment theatre in Gurgaon, just an hour’s drive away from Delhi. Vivek is already learnt to be in Delhi to begin rehearsals of the play with Isha and Gauhar.
