Indian filmmaker A R Rahman brought the sights and sounds of Bollywood to London and then to Broadway with this musical extravaganza, starring Raza Jeffrey and Preeya Kalidas as star-crossed lovers who have to overcome various difficulties, when the hero, an aspiring actor from a Bombay slum, falls in love with the heroine, engaged to a lawyer and the daughter of a well-known Bollywood filmmaker. With a book by Meera Syal and lyrics by Don Black, and produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the show received its world premiere June 19, 2002 at the Apollo Victoria Theatre in London, where it ran for two years. Substantially revised, both in plot and musical content, it had a Broadway premiere on April 29, 2004 for a run of 284 performances.