Debuted on the Indian stage in March 2003, it will be in its 22nd year soon and speaking in Gujarati. After English and Hindi, The Vagina Monologues—the ground-breaking play by V, formerly known as Eve Ensler—that celebrates the vagina, gives it a voice to speak of the various celebrations and acts of brutality heaved upon it, will now be performed in Gujarati.

We’re sitting in on a reading at Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal’s home in Churchgate with actors Swati Das, who has been associated with the play for 10 years, doing its Hindi and English versions, and Girija Oak-Godbole, whose mother tongue is Marathi, but started off her career in Gujarati theatre and obsessively observes how accent changes with regions. The Jawan-star was raised in Kandivli, in the heart of Gujarat’s suburban outpost. She’s been having fun recreating the Surti accent with its “hu” instead of “shu” and a Kathiawadi lilt.