Aurat [Woman]

Aurat toured extensively all over north India in the early 1980s. These are pictures from a tour of Haryana in 1980. The performances are in the open, to audiences of hundreds of villagers, who sit or stand in a circle around the play. The pictures are shot by Surendra Rajan, artist and photographer and later Bollywood actor. In this picture, the student Woman (Moloyashree Hashmi) is subjected to sexual harassment by three louts (l to r, Deepak Gulati, N.K. Sharma and Subhash Tyagi) as the policeman (Rathin Das) looks away.