MAJHYA BAYKOCHA ROBOT, playwright Shilpa Kamble crafts a sharp and humorous allegory on how Artificial Intelligence increasingly invades human intimacy and emotional spaces.
The play follows Mamta, a middle-aged housewife trapped in a loveless marriage with Ajit, who is more engaged with global affairs than his own home. Into her emotional void arrives a seemingly harmless device — marketed as a wellness product — gifted by her younger sister. But this device evolves into “Dicky”, a life-sized AI companion designed to understand and respond to Mamta’s most private, unspoken desires