Director : Ajay Kumar
Writer : Vijaydan Detha
Group : NSD Repertory Company, New Delhi
Language : Hindi
Duration : 140min.
Date : 31 Jan, 03 &10 Feb 2025
Play : MAI RI MAI KA SE KAHUN
Based on the story ‘Duvidha’ written by Vijaydan Detha, Mai Ri Main Ka Se Kahoon is the story of the conflict between a woman’s desire, her emotions and the social norms. One of the biggest disparities or irony of today’s progressive society, which advocates women walking shoulder to shoulder with men, and providing them equal rights, is put forward in the author’s words, as follows – ‘ Where is the woman’s own will, Medhi (vestibule) till before reaching the Masaan (crematorium)… and straight to Masaan from the Medhi.’
In a society that claims to have reached the height of science and intellect, woman is still not free to exercise her mental and physical rights – rather she has to weigh her every desire and reluctance against masculine thoughts. from birth to marriage, all her rights are with her parents and after marriage, with her husband and children. Her feelings, her desires, all her freedom… all its possibilities are still limited to the two restricted frameworks created by the society – ‘From Medhi to Masaan’…
