A Kannada play on patriarchy's effect on women

This Kannada play,

Jokumaraswamy

features female characters who expose and oppose patriarchal oppression. One of the pivotal roles is Gowda,a product of patriarchal society and he regards

women

as irrational beings to be dominated and

exploited

for the needs of men. The characters Shari and Ningi in Jokumaraswamy examine the weakness and hypocrisy of Gowda and stand testimony to the fact that women are wiser than men. Jokumaraswamy will be staged on July 5 and the cast includes T S

Nagabharana

, T S Girish, Nanjappa U V, Udayashankar, Kalapana naganath, Naginibharana, Pawan Kumar H J, Chandramouli, Narayan, Prakash Desai, Marutesha raddi, Sagar, Manjunath K, Kiran Vipra, Karthik Pandavapura, Sathyaprakash Sharma K S, Prakash BN, Deepa narayan swamy, Lakshmishree Bhagavatar, Shrutha Bharana, Aishwarya, Brunda K V and Nayana Mouli.