Kruttika Desai's One-Act Play with a Social Message

On Wednesday, 17th July, 2019, our Club at its regular meeting, staged a one-act play with a social message by Ms. Kruttika Desai,  a very accomplished and versatile actress who has acted in 25 television serials, Hindi movies and many Guajarati plays. She has acted in serials like Buniyaad, Chandrakanta, Kismat, Zameen Asmaan, Superhit Muqabla and Kusum etc. and is an excellent dancer too. 

The one act play presented by Ms. Kruttika, titled ‘LAAPSI – A Mother’s Love and Struggle for her Child’, was hard hitting on the topic of surrogacy.It dealt with the plight of a poor woman who, for the love of helping and securing the future of her own disabled child, advents into the process of surrogacy to help a childless couple, for which she is to be given a hefty sum in return. The woman eventually gives birth to a handicapped child whom the couple refuses to accept and she is not given the money for carrying the child either. She finally returns to try becoming a surrogate mother again as she accepts and keeps the surrogate child that she has given birth to. 

The mesmerizing acting by Ms. Kruttika left everyone in the audience spell bound. The one act play brought to the fore the depth of the actor’s thought process and her intense desire to throw light on the burning social issue of surrogacy. Rtn. Dr. Usha Jayachandran gave a touching vote of thanks to the actress for her emotional and spell binding performance.

- Report by Rtn.Dr.Usha Jayachandran