Projapati is a good old-fashioned farce. The play highlights the often-hilarious situations that arise when matchmakers arrange marriages. Hardship of Americans during the Great depression is also featured in the play.

The comedy begins with Horace Vandergelder, a penny-pinching storeowner, refusing to let his niece marry a poor artist she is in love with. Vandergelder however, plans to remarry. Dolly Levi, a matchmaker, pretends to help Vandergelder find a suitable bride, secretly schemeing to marry him herself. She also tries to help the young lovers gain his approval. Vandergelder's beleaguered clerk, who craves some excitement, also meets the woman of his dreams. The object of his affection however, happens to be the one Vandergelder intends to marry. In the end, everyone is happy and just a little smarter.