As Viva turns sixty-one, she decides to speed up the process of ‘going junglee’, as her late husband put it. But just as she has begun to back-pedal, de-clutter, disengage, go monochrome and all the other things people her age are supposed to do, life comes romping in again, with all its insistent, multi-coloured demands. Viva deftly bats the googlies and doosras that life throws at her, playing her second innings with an inventive grace. Gouri Dange’s Three-Dog Night is imbued with all the drama of lives passionately lived, with nerve and verve.