Jhalli Kithay Javay is a musical in the style of Punjabi folk theatre. Jhalli is the story of a young bride whose husband goes to Dubai immediately after the wedding and is unable to return because of the demands of a family more interested in his income. There is no help coming from the in-laws who make no effort to make her feel welcome and their maltreatment of her aggravated the situation. In an insensitive environment, the only expression of her anguish is through hysterical outbursts.
She is soon regarded as having been possessed by evil spirits. In an attempt to cure her, the families, who are from a poor, rural area take the jhalli from one spiritual healer to another, without success. She is treated in turn by a mullah a pir a Hakeem, an exorcist and finally by psychiatrists. Her condition remains unchanged one reason being that the healers are either frauds, exploiters, quacks or insensitive, ignorant and too expensive. The story is linked by two narrators ( Ravi ) in the traditional
style and is mostly illustrated through dance, music, and dialoques in verse forms.