Benare, upset, tries to leave but the room has been locked from the outside, and she has no choice other than endure the rest of the trial. However, Benare’s distressed response reveals that he’s hit upon the truth-Benare is, in fact, pregnant with Damle’s child and has been desperately trying to find a way to ensure a happy future for her baby.Īs troop realizes that their fictional trial has a grain of truth within it, the players become more serious. Samant then fabricates a scenario taken from a novel, in which Benare has become pregnant after having an affair with Damle. The trial heats up when Rokde reveals that (in real life) he went to Damle’s house one afternoon and saw Benare inside. Many members of the troop have been quietly judgmental of Benare’s lifestyle as an unmarried, outspoken woman, and use this trial as an opportunity to criticize her and progressive Indian politics generally. However, as the trial carries on and begins to converge with her personal life, causing her to become upset, Benare’s collaborators remind her it is just a game. Ponkshe and Karnik likely know that something is wrong in Benare’s personal life, perhaps related to pregnancy, and so maliciously suggest she be charged with infanticide.īenare begins the trial combative and mischievous, which causes her collaborators to chide her to be serious. Benare is out of the room during the discussion, and so, without her input, is nominated as the accused.

They decide to keep most of the roles the same-Sukhatme plays the lawyer, Kashikar the judge-but designate a new defendant. With several hours until they are meant to perform, the troop members decide to improvise a trial as they wait. Although longtime collaborators, each member of the group is constantly making jabs at the others, trying to assert his or her authority. Rawte, were unable to make it to the performance. Two members of the troop, Professor Damle and Mr.

She has also been fired from her job as a school teacher, as her bosses worried her pregnancy was a sign of immorality, which she would pass on to the children. Benare, unbeknownst to her colleagues and to the audience, is unmarried and newly pregnant. Benare arrives early with a villager, Samant, who helps her unlock the building, and chats with her as they wait for the rest of the troop to arrive. Leela Benare arrives at a meeting hall in a small Indian village where she and a handful of colleagues will perform a Living Courtroom for the villagers.

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