SOCIAL REALISM ? A STUDY ON ASIF CURRIMBHOY’S “THE HUNGRY ONES

India has the richest tradition in drama. Right from the Vedic Aryan period down to Post Modern Multi Cultural society, Indian Drama is credited with different episodes with different outlooks by the dramatists. Most of the themes describes the different situations relating to good and bad in different ; Crime and Punishment; Sin and Redemption and so on. It was Rabindranath Tagore and a host of others in the modern age of Indian Drama created the impression of drama in a new perspective. The Plays of Asif Currimbhoy throws light on the sensing conflicts everywhere. The conflict is sometimes internal like physical, mental, and emotional because of human relations that we maintain in society at the same time, conflict in theatre among the characters, situations, scenes and surprisingly among the audience. He invents human quandary through social, moral, religious and political concerns in his plays. His plays stand for universal revolt and anguish. This paper titled: “ Hungry and Poverty in the streets of Culcutta ? A Study on Currimbhoy’s “The Hungry Ones” makes an attempt to throw light on the human plight handled by the playwright where he looks at the things while others fail to see.