Assignment P:-7

Name :- Foram y. vyas

Topic :- Dynamics of Human Relationship in Tara.

Roll No:-23

Batch :- 2010-2011 

Sem:-II(M.A.)

Topic :- Dynamics of Human Relationship in Tara

                    Mahesh Dattani freauently takes  as his subject the complicared dynamics of the modern urban family. His characters struggle for some kind of freedom and happiness under the weight of  tradition. Culture construction of gender, and repressed  desire. In his plays, Dattani takes on what he calls ‘Invisible issues’of  Indian society. Dattani challenges  the  constructions of ‘Indian ‘ and ‘indian’ as they have traditionally been defined in modern theater.

                    Tara cenres on the emotional separation that grows betreen two conjoined twins following the discovey that their physical separation was manipulated by their mother and grandfather to fovour the boy over the girl. Tara , a fiesty girl who isn’t given the opportunities given to her brother. Dattani sees Tara as a play about coming the gendered self, about coming to terms with the feminine side of oneself in a world that always favors what is ‘male’ many people in India see it as a play about the girl child . it is important to note that all of Dattani’s writes plays to be seen and heard,literature to be read.

                    Tara is throughout a tragic play and its difficult to point out only few points for its tragedy, but even then I would say that besides Tara and chandan’s physical and mental sound, Bharati is more tragic in comparison to Tara and chandan. Tara is a story of girl who  wants  to twinkle and shine, just like her name. Dattani using the themes like gender  identity,discrimination,middle class life,revelation etc. He through these themes has beautifuliy shown the agony of a girl in typical Indian society.

                  These are stereotypical gender roles and Dattani makes is when Tara explains to Roopa  about the conversation between Father and son,

“ The men in the house were

Deciding on whether they

Were going to go hunting

While the women looked

After the cave.’’

                                        Dattani very cleverly the light to highlight the action wherever he wants at any level without any breaks for chance of scene. It is this the gives the play the feeling of unity of action music is so well  used that it also creates and enhance the mood of character Issues of gender discrimination ‘Tara is a riveting play that question the role of society that treats the children of the same womb in two different ways.Dattani’s  ‘Tara’is a poignant play about a boy and girl who are joined together at the hip and have to be separated surgically.The fact that it is  women who continues the chain of injustice. Tara is not just the story of protagonist of the play ‘Tara’, but it is the story of even girl child born in ‘Indian’family whether urban or rural.

                                              It is a bitter example of child abuse present in the Indian societies. Every girl child born an Indian family does suffer some kind of explotation propounded to the son.the play revolves around the simese twins,chandan and Tara patel, throughtout the play we can feel that she beares some kind of aversion with outside world and her world consists of only her parents and her brother whom she was ever close to the play explores besides exposing the typical Indian mind set which has from time immemorial preferred a boy child and to a girl child.

                 It looks at the triumphs and the failures of an Indian mind set which has from time immemorial preferred and the failures of an Indian family. Shashi Deshpande communicates  ‘Roots and Shadows.’

“women’s  lives, they have told me,

Contained no choice the women had

No choice but to submit and accept

I had often wondered…they have been

Born with out wiils, or have their wills atrophied

Through a life time of disuse.’

                                  Tara , a feisty  girl who isn’t given to her opportunities as were given to her brother eventually wastes away and dies. His plays deal with cotemporary issues. They are plays of today sometimes as actual as to cause-times as actual as to cause controversy,but at the same time they are plays which embody many of the classic concerns of world drama.thus, to conclude Everyone in the play is trying to prove his or her superiority.