The Captives: A Social play by Asif Currimbhoy

Abstract

In the Indian English dramatic literature, Asif Currimbhoy has made a remarkable and significant contribution through his plays that are meant for acting, while his predecessors like T.P. Kailasm, Chattopadhyay and Sri Aurobindo wrote plays that are lyrical, symbolic and allegoric in form. Hence Asif Currimbhoy is rightly called as the first authentic voice in the theatre. Asif Currimbhoy has exhibited his various facets of writing through various kinds of plays like social plays, religious plays, historical plays, political plays.

The Captivesis a social play that depicts the relation between the Indian Muslim and Pakistani Muslim. The play also deals with the Indo-Chinese invasion. Through the play, one can understand the social concern that the playwright hasregarding the events that take place around him in his Milieu.