Dehradun, Dec. 24 -- I couldn't have asked for a better winter-evening-treat than getting a chance to watch an amazing play, a Hindi adaptation of "There is Always a Price Tag" by James Hadley Chase. As a student of English Literature, I had grown up reading his gripping novels. The Hindi adaptation was titled "Qismat Palace", directed by the young, talented Akhilesh Narain under the banner of Eklavya Theatre Group, Dehradun.

"There's Always a Price Tag" is a classic James Hadley Chase novel (1956) adapted into the 1957 French film Retour de Manivelle (French title) starring Michele Morgan and Daniel Gelin, about a man drawn into a murder-for-insurance-money scheme. It is a crime thriller. There is also a Naseerudin Shah-Paresh Rawal-Om ...