VAISHALI COTTAGE

This award-winning experimental play was called 'Vaishalichi Kholi' in 1988. Nearly 24 years later, the play is being mounted on the Marathi commercial stage. Also it marks the comeback of talented actress, Amita Khopkar.

A taut, suspense thriller with a hair-raising plot. Young Shivani and her boyfriend Sameer are accosted by an elderly couple while shopping in a mall. They insist that Shivani bears an uncanny resemblance to Vaishali who succumbed to cancer years ago. But Vaishali's sister has delusions that Vaishali is still alive. To rescue the sister from her sorry plight, they urge Shivani to impersonate Vaishali as she was in the 70s. Shivani agrees on humanitarian grounds but finds herself trapped in a vicious conspiracy. The viewer remains transfixed to the seat in horror...