Vol. 5, Issue 3, Part B (2019)

Abstract
Mahesh Dattani is a Banglore based Indian English playwright. His plays usually deal with middle class life in urban India. The major issues Dattani deals with are homosexuality, gender identity and communalism, revelation of past, the hollowness of middle class life and the family as a battlefield. The present paper humbly attempts to describe briefly the theme of revelation of past in the selected plays of Mahesh Dattani. Once the past is revealed the real motive comes before the audience and the complex web of relationship is visible to the audience.