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Chanakya – Marathi Play

August 2024

The play ‘Chanakya’ revolves around the character Chanakya aca kautilya aca Vishnugupta, a teacher, a polymath who saw a dream of Akhand bharat around 326 – 320 BCE. The play depicts how Chanakya heads towards accomplishing his selfless ambition with his vision, intelligence, courage, strategies and discipline holding his brave, charismatic student Chandragupta Maurya by his hand and ascending him to the throne of Magadha Empire. A stupendous portrayal of contemporaneous political, social, economical, cultural structure comes across as the story unfolds. And a surprising relevance, inter- relation is visible in contemporary context.