The Bengaluru-based Sarvam Theatre, founded by Divya Karanth, will be staging the Kannada play, My Wife Mrs. Gandhi at Kiru Rangamandira in Kalamndira premises in city on Feb. 1 at 7 pm.
Synopsis: On the morning of October 31, 1984, Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her own bodyguards. She died as she lived, surrounded by voices yet isolated. It was a violent end to a life of epic drama. Here is the first ever Kannada play on one of the world’s most influential leaders, India’s third Prime Minister, woman of the millennium — Indira Gandhi. Divya Karanth, writer-director, narrates the play from Feroze Gandhi’s point of view. The play is set from 1965 to1984, tangling between the present and past scenarios of India’s politics, the era where her sons, her family, her friends affect her Prime Ministership and motherhood. The play is about the voices behind the woman who played a dominant role in the history of the twentieth century, the voices that subsumed her personal hopes and desires, the voices that brought her sequences of deaths and tragedies, the voices that killed her.