Discuss the various themes that
Asif Currimbhoy deals with in his plays.
Asif Currimbhoy is one of the
most prolific and versatile playwrights in Indian English Literature. He is
rightly called by Faubion Bowers as “India’s first authentic voice in the theatre". His plays are not only the expression of thoughts but thoughts are meant for
action on the stage. He is the only Indian English playwright who put great
effort to enact his plays on the stage in India. Thus Asif Currimbhoy is
successful in producing “actable” plays. His plays cover various facts of
society and written social, political, historical, art, psychological and
religious plays.
He was born on 15th
August 1928 in Bombay. His father was an arm chair intellectual and a liberal
minded person. His mother was veteran social worker. He hails from a family of
industrialists who won the title of baronetcy by the British Government. Asif
Currimbhoy was a non-practicing Muslim writer. He studied in St. Xavier’s High
School Bombay. The school exposed Asif Currimbhoy to an environment of the
western culture and English language, which gave basic foundation of language
at the early stage of his life. Though he studied in the Christian missionary
school, he did not miss the roots of an indigenous culture. He studied the Ramayana, the Bhagavad Geeta and other Indian classics. For higher studies Asif
Currimbhoy went to USA. He studied at University of California and graduated in
Economics in 1950. Then he studied at Wisconsin University. He stayed in USA for
four years and studied Shakespearean dramas and witnessed numerous dramatic
trends in drama in the USA. Bayappa Reddy said “this (USA) must have gone a
long way in shaping him as a man of the theatre.” Hence he had a
good knowledge of the theatrical techniques.....................................................................................
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