Gender and Marginality in Mahesh Dattani’s Select Dramas.

Mahesh Dattani, a contemporary playwright who received an honourable Sahitya Akademi Award in 1998. He had started his carrier as an advertising copywriter and later he shifted towards drama. It was evident that the successful theatre group PLAYPEN was formed by him in 1984, and he directed many plays from classical Greek drama to contemporary plays. Almost in his plays, he deals with suppressed and exploited people’s lives. Dattani portrayed the marginalised, underprivileged and subaltern people who are treated cruelly and denied even the basic rights by the society. He highlights their problems, difficulties and questions the society throughout his plays.