Manch Parva 2019: Andhayug, a Gujarati drama revisits the Mahabharata

MSU Baroda is conducting a 5 day National Theatre Festival and 2 day National Seminar to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Gandhiji, where one of the sections is ‘Re-visiting the Mahabharata’ which explores the various dimensions of the Mahabharata, i.e. linguistic structure, historical layers, socio-cultural milieu and beliefs, mythology, components of its form structure’ etc.

The name of one of the plays that revisit the Mahabharata is Andhayug in Gujarati. The play is about the aftermath of the Mahabharata where Dhrutasrashtra and Gandhari are crying for the death of their dying sons and is a metaphor for the prevalence fight between the power and survival in the world, the wrath of the blind rage.