Role and character of
Tara /Tara as a Social Play/ Role of Dr. Thakkar/ Title/ Gender Discrimination/
Other Characters like Patel and Chandan
Dattani is known widely for picking up scintillating social problems of
which Tara is perennial and glaring. Dattani’s Tara gives us a
glimpse into the modern society which claims to be liberal and advanced in its
thought and action and claims women to be ‘Devis’ whom not only women but men
also pay obeisance, differentiate between a male child and female child. All
the propagandas of equality between male and female, equal opportunities to women
in all the fields are belied. Dattani has attempted an uphill task of pulling
out all the taboo subjects from under the rug and putting them on the stage for
the public to review. Considering his foresight, it can be said that young playwrights
like Dattani, having guts to bring forth such poignant issues and present them
thread bare, should be spawned and couraged.
The title of Mahesh Dattani’s Tara comes after the very name of
its female protagonist round which the story of the play revolves. Tara who is
a victim of gender discrimination, is a bubbly and energetic girl. She has all
the qualities of a normal girl. If she has been given moral support by her
parents, especially her father, she may have shone like a star as her name
justifies. But her potentiality is sacrificed on the altar of gender because
she is a girl. Moreover, the title is used ironically in the play.
By her very birth, Tara becomes a victim of Dr. Thakkar. Dr. Thakkar is
contrary to what doctors are thought to be. Doctors are thought to be
messengers of God because they save lives on this earth. Dometimes, when
ordinary human beings falter, it is the doctors who show them the right path.
But this doctor belied his godly profession and led himself to be bribed by
Tara’s grandfather into becoming an accomplice in the bizarre act of severing
the leg. He should have upheld his profession by denouncing the decision at its
inception whereas he in a way took Tara’s life by severing the leg. His wise
decision could have given Tara a safe, secured and complete life. His cruelty
not only thwarts Tara’s dreams but fills her life with dejection and
depression................................................................................................................................................
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