Goodbye Swamy - A Hindi Play By Sutradhar: Events in Hyderabad

REVIEW FOR GOODBYE SWAMY - A...

When a fraudster gets to sit on the chair of a swami, he immediately becomes the guiding light for streams of devotees. It's easy to laugh in this play, and, as it argues, just as easy to do the same.

Sutradhar is presenting a full-length Hindi play, Goodbye Swamy, at the Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University Auditorium, on 17th November. The play is the story of a fugitive-on-the-run who enters an ashram, where the swamiji gives him refuge and offers him all that he owns, provided he reforms. By a strange quirk of fate, the fugitive occupies the seat of the ashram, quite unwillingly. Here a stream of devotees blindly follow the diktats of the fraudster, and lo and behold, even benefit from his pranks.

The play shows how the Indian masses hero-worship, particularly those from the religious class. For them it doesn