The Marvel Avengers show in Mumbai is mainly only fun for the kids

An immersive show about the Marvel Avengers is fun for children but rarely gets the adrenaline going

On a holiday celebrating Gandhi, that legendary champion of peaceful resistance, hundreds of people in Mumbai sign up to train in scientific violence and tactical intelligence. But theirs would be a fight of the righteous kind, they are assured -- and of the heavily simulated kind, it turns out. Paying Rs 600-700 each, they become the “new recruits” in a band of superheroes that are “part of something great” — saving a world threatened by a secret organisation bent on world domination. This may sound like a microcosm for political mass movements but is in fact an hour in the