Crossroads: An Original One-Act Play Exploring Suspense, Drama, and Complex Realities

About Crossroads

Crossroads is an original one-act play focusing on a high-profile escort who enters a lucky day appointment with an evil doctor, leading to a suspenseful and dramatic roller coaster of emotions. The production highlights complex human existence and emotional corruption, unfolding dark secrets and societal realities. It uses intrigue, seduction, songs, music, dance, emotions, and multimedia to engage audiences intellectually and entertainingly.

Writer and Director

Riju Bajaj, son of Shri Ram Gopal Bajaj and Late Shrimati Chandrakala Khemchand Prakash, is involved in theatre and filmmaking across acting, writing, cinematography, and directing. He has acted in feature films directed by Govind Nihalani (Tamas) and Shyam Benegal (Suraj ka Saatvan Ghoda), and directed documentaries and television series including India’s Most Wanted, Crime Patrol, and Phir Bhi. He established RBME and launched Lifft India in 2017, directed and acted in Badal Sarkar's play Saari Raat, and produced and directed short films in 2025 such as The Re-Bell, Fallen in Love, Do You Love Me, and R.I.P Rastor Image Processor.

Co-Writer

Supriya Parulekar holds a post-graduate diploma in journalism and mass communications. Her published novels include Best Friends Forever, The Gangster’s Muse, A Soulful of Lie, Dragonflies, and Dreamcatcher. She has worked as a script editor for the History Channel and developed content for OTT. Her short film script Raaya screened at the Cannes Film Festival and received a Special Jury Mention at the Delhi Film Festival.

Director’s Note

Working on the script for Crossroads involved extensive research into sex workers and their ordeals to achieve realism while maintaining a dramatic impact. The story addresses the unspoken truth, the dark side of sex work, family dilemmas, individual choices and rights in modern society, and the concept of euthanasia framed as mercy killing.

Group

Lifft India operates as a registered trademark under Riju Bajaj Media & Entertainment since 2017, hosting online and offline film and theatre festivals in Lonavala and producing short films and plays available on the Lifft India YouTube channel.