Baa Retire Thaay Che

There is a saying in Sanskrit, "Matru Devo Bhava", that is, 'Mother is God'. To say that Ba retires from a family is therefore like saying that God is retiring from the world. Like most families, the family in the play is emotionally embattled. There are the sons whose part of the world lies beyond their mother's home; the husband who believes that he is responsible only for the material well-being of the home and the daughter who has eloped and thereby shunned by the family. But what is Ba left with? What is that she would seek to protect? A new journey must begin; after all she is as much of a human being as her children and her husband. Sudha, the protagonist of the play, chooses to therefore "retire".

The play makes a comeback after 23 years. The original production was directed by Shafi Inamdar, and was adapted in Gujarati by Arvind Joshi.

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