Mahesh Dattani is the first Indian playwright writing in English to be awarded the Sahitya Akademi award. His plays bring Indian drama into the present day, while still focussing on human relationships, personal , moral choices.

Collected Plays, Vol. 1

Literature & Fiction

Dattani Mahesh

History & Criticism

Penguin Group USA

<p>In the book Dance Like A Man: A Stage Play In Two Acts, the author documents the life of Lata, a young girl caught between the ambitions of her parents and her desire to marry the man of her choice. Lata s parents, Jairaj and Ratna, are former Bharatanatyam dancers in search of a mridangam player who can play during Lata s performance at a popular dance show. However, little do they know that they will also be meeting Viswas, the man that their daughter is planning to marry. The meeting leads to an argument between her parents, unravelling events from their past and exposing strains of discord among them. Apart from that, the young couple also has several other issues to deal with, including Lata s career after marriage and her efforts to balance her parents desires and hers.</p>

Dance Like a Man: : A Stage play in two

PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE INDIA PVT.LTD.

Mahesh Dattani s work has shaped contemporary English theatre in India over the past twenty-five years, boldly exploring themes like homosexuality, religious fanaticism, child sexual abuse and gender bias while also raising the bar for theatrical innovation. In Me and My Plays, he eloquently reflects on the highs and lows of surviving in a system largely indifferent to professional theatre.  Included in this edition are Where Did I Leave My Purdah?, which explores the life and travails of Nazia, a feisty actress now in her eighties, who is forced to confront her past demons when she attempts to stage a comeback, and The Big Fat City, a black comedy about the residents of an apartment complex in Mumbai who unwittingly become accomplices to a murder. Intense and hard-hitting, both plays deal with the lies that simmer beneath the surface of our daily lives.

Me And My Plays

Contemporary

India Penguin

Final Solutions - A stage play in three acts

Penguin India

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