‘CHARCHAUGHI’ has become the focus of much attention over the last year, not only for drawing full houses wherever it goes- that happens to many other plays- but for having been so widely discussed in the press and women’s groups. It has to be recorded as one of the phenomena of recent theatre, not just in the Marathi language but any language for that matter. It deserves fully the success it has received.
The director, Chandrakant Kulkarni, is as young as the writer, both part of an Aurangabad group of theatre people who came to Bombay in order to do more adventurous, more challenging theatre, Kulkarni too shows admirable control in handling the mainly female cast two of whom are veteran actresses- Deepa Shriram and Vandana Gupte. Even the less experienced actresses, Asavari Joshi and Pratiksha Lonkar, rise to the demands the play makes on them so that the whole moves and gathers strength through the contribution of the entire team.