Fresh from the success of their debut cineplay screening in April, Ranchi Club will bring another for its members on Saturday.

This time, it is the satirical Mahesh Dattani play Hasmukh Saab Ki Wasihat.

Cineplay, as Ranchi Club audiences know well by now, is a genre blender, a play on screen. Cineplays are gaining in popularity especially in metros such as Mumbai and Delhi.

In Hasmukh Saab Ki Wasihat, talented thespians Mohan Agashe, Seema Pahwa, Achint Kaur, Mona Wasu and Gagan Singh flesh out the story a rich, autocratic businessman who doesn't relinquish control of his family even after his death, through his will. Hasmukh's family will have to continue to live according to his stringent conditions, including allowing his mistress to move into their family home, or risk being disinherited. But, there's a twist to the tale, Dattani style. Hasmukh's wife and mistress begin to bond with each other, which does not go down well with the autocrat.

Dattani, one of India's most accomplished contemporary playwrights, who has also directed a few offbeat films like Morning Raaga, won the Sahitya Akademi in 1998.

Ranchi Club in April screened Between the Lines, starring actress-director and former Cannes jury member Nandita Das and her husband Subodh Maskara. Both Between the Lines and Hasmukh Saab Ki Wasihat are productions of Cineplay, an alternative content production firm, initiated by Das and Maskara.

"Our members really liked viewing the cinematic version of a play, which prompted us to arrange a screening of another one," said Ranchi Club secretary Sandeep Kapoor.

On why the play-film genre is acquiring a cult following among lovers of theatre and cinema, a company official said many times, it wasn't possible for a play to be staged in many part of the country due to logistics and cost. But, a cine-play can be screened anywhere.

Since its formation in February 2014, the company has presented seven cineplays, beginning with Between the Lines. Others include are Mohan Rakesh's Adhe Adhure, Siddharth Kumar's The Job, Adhri Bhat and Bobby Nagra's Sometime, Vickram Kapadia's Bombay Talkies and Dattani's Hasmukh Saab Ki Wasihat and Dance Like A Man.