About The Event
Mahesh Bhatt presents "7:40 Ki Ladies Special" written by Sapna Basoya & Viren Basoya, produced by Sandiip Kapoor and directed by Viren Basoya. It`s an Aawara Theatre Group Production.
Cast & Crew - Pooja Sharma Rekha, Sapna Basoya, Swaroopa Ghosh, Ranjay Kumar, Vaishnaav Vaani, Pratiksha Ingole, Shamim Rayeen, Jogen Dewasi, Aisha Choudhary, Rajor P Raj, Siddharth Negi, Abhay Mishra, Gaytri Negi & Shivam etc.
Music - Pranil More
Light - Chetan Chand
Choreographer- Sayali More
About the play:-
This play is based on the life story of Pooja Sharma, a transgender, who is also known as Junior Rekha and popular for her amazing dancing skills. This story is untold journey of Pooja, before she got popular, it depicts some important life changing incidences of her life. First is when she realizes that she is different from others and born into a wrong body since she feels otherwise. Second is when she goes through horrendous experience and decides to leave her family and hometown and moves to Mumbai in search of herself. Third is a life changing incident when she gets acknowledged and respects her skills and talent and not by gender for which she has been fighting for. This play talks about the unknown struggles of transgender people and how society reduces a person’s identity merely to its gender. It puts light on dark truth behind the glamour and popularity that Pooja has today as she is still denied the basic human needs such as having a house. Purpose of this play is to make society aware of the struggles of LGBTQ community and change the mindset so that we can create safe and fair space for all the genders.
