ON FEBRUARY 26 evening, it was full house for Charchaughi at a 1,200-seater auditorium in Maharashtra's Thane. The path-breaking play in Marathi, written by noted playwright Prashant Dalvi, was revived by director Chandrakant Kulkarni last year. The story is about four women-a headstrong mother, who is in a relationship with a married man, and her three independent-thinking daughters, born out of that relationship. At the centre of the narrative is Vidya, the eldest daughter, played by Mukta Barve, who decides to divorce her husband for infidelity.
She even argues for their five-year-old daughter’s custody to be equally divided between the parents, so as to not let the father walk free from sharing responsibility. The play, set in the 1990s Maharashtra, continues to be much ahead of its times, and Barve, with her thunderous monologue in defence of equal rights, has emerged as the face of the modern woman.
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