I take inspiration from my own life for certain elements of the plots,” says Tushar Tukaram Dalvi, Founder and Artistic Director of Rangaai Theatre Company. The company, which started in 2016, specialises in immersive sensory theatre experiences. During the Covid-19 imposed lockdown, they produced #Gargikand, a virtual murder mystery experience premised on a single girl going suspiciously missing, while the dead body of an unknown person is discovered in her apartment. “My would-be wife used to live alone in Pune and I started wondering, what if an independent woman was stuck in a situation like this?” says Dalvi.  “How would society look at it? The show’s experience was socially-driven where characters blamed her first, only to find out that she was not the perpetrator but a victim. It had two hosts—one male and one female—where the female perspective was supportive of the woman. The realities of the case would come out through this woman’s investigation rather than the man’s.”

Tushar Tukaram Dalvi