Mahesh Dattani’s Thirty Days in September in the light of Rasa Theory

Abstract

Theatre is a platform where live actors perform in real time before live audience which makes it a unique art form because it exists in the ‘present’. The live actor-audience interaction is one of the special thrills of the theatre for both the performers and the audience. Dramatic performance has a direct appeal to the sensory organs enabling the audience to relish the Rasa, a Sanskrit concept which has different meanings but it is understood comprehensively in a Sanskrit phrase Param Asvadniya Tattava, which is basically an essence of drama. Rasa theory has been propounded by Bharatmuni in Rasadhaya of Natyashastra.