P for Pain and
Pleasure!
Inspired and Adapted
from an article written by
Radhika Narayan
@
Screenplay: Abhishek
Iyengar
(As the mood slowly
sets in, women of age 25 years sitting on the floor… with her head bent
down….partially seen face… a soul departed.. a sense of fear, may be rejection!
A confused mind….)
(As she notices the
people around her sitting, she slowly lifts her head…….)
(A smirk, a disgust,
some what unwanting…)
Roshini:- P for
Pain… (a sarcastic laugh) P for pleasure…
It was once P for
Pleasant, P for Playful, P for peppy, P for pleasure of life…..
P for….. (Bending
her head down) Never mind… My life is a cracked mirror, a shattered glass…
Actually, the only mistake I did in this society is ‘being a girl!’, (looking
upwards, like questioning the lord), was it so heinous crime? Being a girl,
Being a woman, they say it is blissful, my foot!
It was a Saturday
night, raining heavily, the whole place was deserted, I left home late,
drenched! Fighting the thunder storms I hit the roads of this society which
thought me to ‘keep my head high, being a women’ (suddenly laughing) the
society is so lame, the society is like this bowl filled with water (starting
to convince the people)
Yes! It is like this
bowl of water! Believe me (pretending as if some one asked how?)
It is pretty simple,
I mean look at a bowl filled with water, it somehow protects all the water in
it but one stone thrown at it, the bowl shatters and the water spills.
The same society
which promised me to protect me shattered that day, Saturday night….
I was raped 7 times
by unknown people
(A laugh, which
expresses her sadness), Yes! Believe me one after the one after other.. 7 times
(laughing aloud)
There could have
someone who could hear my cry! Really! NO one heard my cry!
Or? (Pause,
thinking)
No one wanted to
hear my cry?
Shhhhh! (silencing
at the audience) the society is calm and silent, do not disturb it…. (Consoling
herself, with tears in her eyes)
(tears) That day I
was punished for ‘Being a Women!’
I was punished for
‘Believing my society!’
I was punished for
“Being independent in a society which is filled with jerks”
(a small pause)
That day I was
punished for “My incapability to convince those 7 people that I am human being”
I was let of after a
3 hour ordeal to lead a life which was a mere hell! (a sarcastic take on
people)
I was on the
national TV, yes!
(suddenly acting
like a TV anchor….)
Breaking NEWS:
Roshini Sabarwal raped 7 times in the Norther Uptown area….
(Coming back to the
roshini character…)
Yes! That’s me on
the television… I am on the national television making news…. You see that
people are talking about me.. about my life… they are debating about me…..
(Turning totally
wild and mad…)
Maa, Maa, mom! You
see that, that’s me on tv and I got rap(silence)….ed mom…..(crying….)
Whom should I thank
for such fame?
Those 7 people who
are still free in our society waiting for the next one?
Or my own society
who raised me to glory for a no mistake of mine?
Or myself?
I am confused
actually……!
I was thrown out of
work, I was asked to join rehab, I was even distanced by my own mom.. that one
night changed so much in my life…..
Thank you all.. it
was P for playful, P for pleasant… and now
It is now P for pain
(She bends her head
down as a symbolic representation of women being bogged down in front of the
people)
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