Shanivaar Ko Do Baje - A Hindi Play: Events in Hyderabad

REVIEW FOR SHANIVAAR KO DO BAJE...

Weaknesses of the flesh have their positives and their negatives. Most aren't aware of any positives, but here is some music for people who are tired of hearing the negatives.

Rangadhara - Theater Stream, together with Sutradhar, will be presenting two one-act plays in Hindi, Shanivar Ko Do Baje and Uttaraardh, on both 31st March and 1st April, at the Potti Sriramulu Telugu University Auditorium, besides Public Gardens, Hyderabad, on the occasion of the World Theater Day, and also celebrate the emerging independence of women. Both the plays have been written 25 years ago, and surprisingly have not lost their sheen.

Shanivar Ko Do Baje was written by Surendra Verma, and cocks a snook at middle-class sexual and moral values. A middle-aged, married man with three kids is having an affair with a not-so-young spinster, and the two have been having a clandestine rendezvous every Saturday afternoon for the past two years, at a borrowed nest.

Both are employed, and their relationship goes much beyond the physical. In a hypocritical society where illicit relationships are looked down upon, these two are neither bogged down by guilt nor share the society