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Review on "Dance like a man" by Mahesh Dattani

In Indian culture, we observe many a times opinions are given mainly gender biased. This inequality not only affects the life of women in the patriarchal society but also affects the life of men.The root or reason for this also can be found in patriarchy itself. When Mahesh Dattani makes his character to speak a dialogue like, "“A woman in a man’s world may be considered as being progressive. But a man in a woman’s world, pathetic”. We as society, have not missed even the form of art (expression of freedom) to label it as related to particular gender or caste. The protagonist of the Play  "Dance like a man" is asked by society, 'what does he do? 'He is a dancer.' 'Yes. But what does he do?' ' He is...'                           Society has a problem with art and art has the problem is society, it also another truth. The sarcasm on society very...
Ghashiram Kotwal is a play by Vijay Tendulkar. There are two acts in the play. Characters are:  Ghashiram Kotwal  Nana Phadnavis  Gulabi  Sutradhar  Gauri Bhahman from poona In the beginning,there is a scene of invocation of Lord Ganesha, goddess Saraswati and goddess lakshmi.And then the Brahmans introduce them to sutradhar,one is vedantic scholar, one is an astrologer, one is a linguist.At the end they say, they are all Poona bhahmans. In the another scene, sutradhar holds some bramhans and asks them, "where are they going?" They say "to temple" and he again asks" why"And there is a scene of Bhavanakhani where Gulabi dances to pleasure Bhahmans of Poona at the same time Nana also comes and dances erotically with Gulabi. His ankle sprains, Ghashiram offers his back to support him. Ghashiram is a Brahman from kanauj who has come to Poona city to make his fortune with his family.After...