In Kolkata, for instance, the first show was at 5 am, and in Jaipur at 6 am. In Mumbai, fans queued up in large numbers at Gaiety Galaxy and were seen dancing to drum beats inside the theatre. Fans were also seen forming a human pyramid outside a theatre at a 6 am show. Videos showing fans dancing near the giant screen inside theatres, when the song Zinda Banda played, have also surfaced on social media.
Mushrooming political parties in Nigeria engage in a theatre of sorts in which several are registered and many of these are deregistered in four-year election cycles. The legitimacy of the results of these expensive exercises is called into question when you realize that many voters do not even know who their representatives are and therefore cannot engage with them to any meaningful or positive end. The Representatives do not have functional constituency offices or contact phone numbers or addresses.