Director : Viren Basoya
Writer : Viren Basoya & Sapna Basoya
Group : Aawara Theatre Group, Mumbai
Language : Hindi
Duration : 90 mins
Date : 12 Feb 2025
Play : 7:40 KI LADIES SPECIAL
This play is based on life story of Pooja Sharma, a transgender, who is also known as Junior Rekha and popular for her amazing dancing skills.
This story is untold journey of Pooja, before she got popular, it depicts 3 important life changing incidences of her life.
First is when she realizes that she is different from others and born into a wrong body since she feels otherwise.
Second is when she goes through horrendous experience and decided to leave family, hometown and moves to Bombay in search of herself.
Third is lifechanging incident when she gets acknowledged and respect for her skills and talent and not by gender for which she has been fighting for.
This story talks about unknown struggles of transgender people and how society reduces a person’s identity merely to its gender.
It puts light on dark truth behind the glamour and popularity which Pooja has today as she is still denied the basic human needs such as having a house.
Purpose of this story to make society aware about struggles of LGBTQ community and change the mind-set so that we could create safe and fair space for all the genders.
