Choukon

CHOUKON, a two-act Marathi play is the setting for a dance bar and restaurant. Alka Padmakar Paud (Ashwini Ekbote) who adopted the life of a bar girl in order to sustain her family’s financial needs is worried. Her daughter Sayali (Sonalika Joshi) has grown up to be a nurse while her son Sushil (Sachin Suresh) is an Engineering graduate.

The play begins with Alka fearing about what would happen when her grown children find out about the reality of their mother’s profession. When finally the truth is revealed, circumstances have come to such a pass that she has to sacrifice her life to save her son’s.

The play acts as a canvas for a number of other characters who are victims of materialism such as the disillusioned youth Jagdish (Ashish Pawar) and Shekhar (Prashant Chaudappa). They are in awe of a bar girl called Lubna (Snehal Gadekar) whose world is merely dictated by crisp currency notes. The other two characters, papa-the owner of the bar (Durgesh Akerkar) and suspended excise inspector Singh (Sunil Jadhav) demonstrate the thin line between the oppressor and the oppressed. In its attempt to depict the harsh realities of life, the play supposedly contends with several moral and ethical issues along the way.