Muhammad bin Tughluq (play)

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Muhammad bin Tughluq
DVD cover
Written by	Cho Ramaswamy
Characters	Muhammad bin Tughluq Ibn Battuta Rangachari Thathachari
Date premiered	1968
Place premiered	Chennai
Original language	Tamil
Genre	Political satire
Setting	Tamil Nadu, India

Muhammad bin Tughluq is a 1968 Indian Tamil-language political satire play written by Cho Ramaswamy. Cho also plays the titular character, portraying him and the Indian political and social affairs in a sarcastic and humorous way.^[1] The play first premiered in 1968 and opened to instant success. Thereafter, with only a few changes in 1969, the play was enacted without any changes in respect with cast, dialogues, characters, costumes, settings etc. until present day. The play ran continually for a number of performances, whose success kindled a film of the same title in 1971.

The play ran continually well into the late 2000s, after which Cho and his team could not continue, due to the former's aging. The drama was released in DVD in Chennai and perhaps in other cities of Tamil Nadu.