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The Munni Monologues
Updated On: 25 February, 2024 07:40 AM IST | Mumbai | Mitali Parekh
After being the voices the monologues of our collective vaginas for more than two decades in Hindi and English, Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal and Son will now be its Gujarati ventriloquists
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Designer Ashdeen Lilaowala has hidden a clever code in the costumes of the cast for the Gujarati version of the play starring Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal, Kruttika Desai, Girija Oak, Swati Das, and Devaki Markus
Debuted on the Indian stage in March 2003, it will be in its 22nd year soon and speaking in Gujarati. After English and Hindi, The Vagina Monologues—the ground-breaking play by V, formerly known as Eve Ensler—that celebrates the vagina, gives it a voice to speak of the various celebrations and acts of brutality heaved upon it, will now be performed in Gujarati.
We’re sitting in on a reading at Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal’s home in Churchgate with actors Swati Das, who has been associated with the play for 10 years, doing its Hindi and English versions, and Girija Oak-Godbole, whose mother tongue is Marathi, but started off her career in Gujarati theatre and obsessively observes how accent changes with regions. The Jawan-star was raised in Kandivli, in the heart of Gujarat’s suburban outpost. She’s been having fun recreating the Surti accent with its “hu” instead of “shu” and a Kathiawadi lilt.
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