About The Event
Uchhaad is a Marathi licensed translation of Yasmina Reza`s 2009 Tony Award winner and celebrated French play, "God of Carnage". The play, translated by Niranjan Pedanekar, portrays a meeting between two couples over the peaceful and civil resolution of a minor altercation between their sons. The meeting slowly but surely escalates into different shapes and sizes of violence, tearing apart the veils of civility, and exposing the conflict that lies at the heart of human coexistence. This adaptation sets the play in an urban India, where the boundaries of social prejudices such as gender, class and caste are casually visible. The play is full of subtle humour that plays on social rituals and the need to keep up appearances. The plot is simple in the sense that the parents of a child who has hit and injured another child while playing, have been invited to the house of the other child`s parents for an amicable solution. Both the set of parents, as a couple and as individuals, have different sets of values and priorities. Given this, the meeting ends up being a game of accusations and insults, finally resulting in an emotionally and physically chaotic scenario.
Uchhaad has won Zee Gaurav Natya Puraskar 2023 for the Best Experimental Play, along with awards for Best Direction and Female Actor. It has also received 4 nominations at the MaTa Sanman awards.
