About The Event
Soniya, the childless youthful wife of a business tycoon whiles away the weary waiting hours with quadrupeds. She brings in two alley cats to keep herself busy and to enjoy her time in the absence of her husband who never shows up. The life takes a turn when a charming young man, friend of her nephew visits her. Her empty days are filled up with love.
Her chauffeur, who is always in search of how to get rich, gets the hint from the maid of their love affair. He gets the photographs to prove her infidelity and starts blackmailing the lady. Maid wants her share of loot which the chauffeur never gives her.
Soniya and her much younger lover decide to leave the city to be together forever. Maid, in order to take revenge on the chauffeur, informs the tycoon about Soniya’s plan of fleeing away. While she is waiting for her man charming, the phone rings to inform about an accident and consequent death of the young man. The sahib had arranged to knock off the lover.
She turns back to bottle for solace. She is completely sloshed when the chauffeur comes to return the car keys for he can no more blackmail her. She tries to get up, the chauffeur helps her to her bedroom where they end up.
Throughout the play, the domesticated cats expose the hypocrisy, the arrogance, the cruelty, the greed, the cynicism and the tragic loneliness and helplessness behind the respectability that characterizes the wealthy upper class. Through cats, are depicted the aspirations of the poor who are blinded by the glitter and glamour of their masters.
In the end one is compelled to think, these are the claws of animals or human beings with their ruthlessness and capacity to draw blood.
