LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 14:7 July 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Garbo - Four Outsiders by Mahesh Elkunchwar

Dr. A. S. Kanna

Garbo is about Young People

‘Writing Garbo was a mistake, I think. Staging its performances would've been a second mistake, which I wanted to avoid,’ said Mahesh Elkunchwar in an interview, explaining why he chose not to give permission to produce the play which he scripted in the 70s. To his mind, it was a “risky proposition” (since it involved so-called indecency) which would fall flat in the hands of a lesser director or lesser actors. To his consternation it can be said that staging Garbo must have been the best, since many films are being produced with such indecency.

Garbo is about the class of young people living aimlessly with the shattered dreams, the diffusion of mediocrity, and the burden of inhibitions. It is a play about the generation which breaks out into defiance of living out their own lives with non-conformism for a credo; throwing up in the process of small minority culture, containing within itself its own seeds of destruction. Garbo is a woman in her late twenties who confronts her destiny but finally lands into trouble of sorts. As an inspiring actress she ends up doing B- grade films, as she couldn’t get good opportunities.

Significance of the Name Garbo

Elkunchwar, probably would have named the character of the woman after the great Hollywood actress Greta Garbo. She is regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars in the Hollywood. There was some speculation that Greta Garbo was bisexual, that she had an intimate relationship with men as well as women. Soon after her career took off, she became known as recluse throughout her life. She lived the last years of her life in absolute seclusion.

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Dr. A. S. Kanna
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Silver Jubilee Government College (Autonomous)
Kurnool - 518002
Andhra Pradesh
India
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