Working woes

According to Apte the protagonist of his Natya Darpan Rajni award-winning play could be any women. quot;A judge, an IAS officer, a simple office-goer.quot; And that8217;s where the play scores. quot;Replace the mother8217;s profession with any other and its three-member family8217;s story 8212; a successful professional mother, an equally successful father and their 22-year-old brilliant son8211; could be that of any family.quot;

In Abhinetri, the rift between mother and son reaches near collapse. To a point that she finds out about her son8217;s departure for the US just a day before he is to leave. quot;It is this problem which audiences identify with.quot;

Abhinetri, according to Apte, is not a pointer of things to come. Rather, it is quot;a presentation of facts that already existquot;. He also refuses to label the play as a changed picture of an urban family. quot;My play is a story of human beings. It is about their expectations from people they are close to, albeit conflicting ones. But it is something that could happen in a rural setting as well. The problem is, least of all, confined to a particular class.quot;

At NCPA on April 24 at pm.