Dastaan-E-ISHQ.exe

Genre: Contemporary Dastangoi • Live Music • Storytelling
Content Warnings: Themes of modern relationships, heartbreak, emotional vulnerability, and
discussions of dating culture.
Suitable for ages: 13+
There was a time when lovers wrote letters. Today, they leave voice notes, send reels, and wait for typing dots. The world has changed. The vocabulary has changed. But has love?

Dastaan-E-Ishq.exe is a contemporary reimagining of the centuries-old South Asian art of Dastangoi, where two storytellers journey across generations to explore the ever-changing language of love. Through live music, Urdu-Hindi poetry, humour, and storytelling, old tales meet modern relationships, revealing that every generation gives love new words—but the heart
keeps telling the same story.

Heartfelt, hilarious, and deeply familiar, Dastaan-E-Ishq.exe is for anyone who has ever fallen in love, waited for a reply, held on to hope, or wondered if every generation has simply been searching for the same thing in different ways.

Perhaps every generation doesn’t have a different love story.

Perhaps every generation simply tells it differently.
Language: Hindustan
Written & Directed by : Dev Parekh
Produced by : Bakwaas Productions
Performed by : Altaf Lakhani & Dev Parekh
Live Music : Fatima Imdad & Rutwik Pandya