Marathi theatre director Santosh Pawar has an interesting take on the Bigg Boss house — he brings an assortment of characters from over the last few decades — women who have been surrounded by controversies, and pushes them all together into this hypothetical Bigg Boss house.
In his latest play Zim Pori Zim. Characters like Rakhi Sawant, Mallika Sherawat, Kiran Bedi, Rabri Devi, Phoolan Devi and others battle it out, show their ugliest side to the audience and trigger off a laughter riot.
Pawar’s play has an all-women cast —14 of them belong to different domains like films, politics, drama and literature. The writer and director explains his work, “These women are not controversial, the society has created controversy around them. My play is just a medium where all of these characters will be pouring out their anguish at the way society has treated them”
Ask him about the reason why he is showing his sympathy towards these personalities, and he snaps back, “Let’s not talk about controversies. There is also another side to these women that people haven’t explored.”
With a pause, he adds, “If we hadn’t created item songs, perhaps Rakhi Sawant wouldn’t have become an item girl and we wouldn’t have poked fun at her.”
Trying to show these women in a different light, we think the director ends up often poking fun at his own characters. You ask him why he is sympathetic towards Rabri Devi (ex chief minister of Bihar) and he answers, “Well, her husband used her to retain the chief minister’s chair for his own party.”
With his play, Pawar says he is also trying to break a few myths that are generally associated with the fairer sex.
He points out, “People think that women can’t stay under one roof without constant bickering and complaining. The Big Boss House is like that. People are always involved in ego hassles and petty issues.
Our play makes a dig at that.”
Does putting the actors into the shoes of characters who have not always made the right kind of headlines put him in the line of fire? Pawar snaps, “It is not a mimicry that we are making of these characters. We are just trying to clear the air.” Whether this play is just a gimmick or it really has some meat on its bones, we can only find out at the premier at Shivaji Mandir on November 5.
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