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{{Infobox play|name=Mitrachi Goshta|writer=[[Vijay Tendulkar]]|premiere={{Start date|1981}}|orig_lang=[[Marathi language|Marathi]]}}

'''''Mitrachi Goshta''''' ({{Lang-mr|मित्राची गोष्ट}}, sometimes translated as ''A Friend's Story''<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/vijay-tendulkar-s-34-year-old-lgbt-play-gets-english-version/story-SYNbrXu48WsbWPL68XCdnO.html|title=Vijay Tendulkar's 34-year-old LGBT play gets English version|last=Joshi|first=Poorva|date=2015-09-03|work=Hindustan Times|access-date=2017-11-28|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003619783|title=Mitrachi goshta, a friend's story: a play in three acts|last=Tendulkar|first=Vijay|last2=Ramnarayan|first2=Gowri.|date=2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0195653173|location=New Delhi ; New York}}</ref>) is a Marathi-language play by Indian playwright [[Vijay Tendulkar]]. It was first performed in 1981,<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=http://www.mid-day.com/articles/play-it-like-vijay-tendulkar/17393179|title=Play it like Vijay Tendulkar|last=Mitter|first=Suprita|date=2016-07-02|work=[[Mid-Day]]|access-date=2017-11-28}}</ref> and has been described as one of the first modern Indian plays dealing with lesbian themes or same-sex attraction.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3">{{Cite news|url=http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl2512/stories/20080620251208600.htm|title=Writing for life|last=Ramnarayan|first=Gowri|date=2008-06-07|work=Frontline|access-date=2017-11-27}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite news|url=http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/Z9Ht6HdZxPL6N9tm5XMZiI/Women-in-love.html|title=Women in love|last=Phukan|first=Vikram|date=2015-09-19|work=Mint|access-date=2017-11-28}}</ref>

== Plot ==
In a 2015 article about the play, Poorva Joshi from the ''[[Hindustan Times]]'' described it as being "Set in the pre-Independence era, in a college campus in [[Pune|Poona]] (now Pune), it had a seemingly conventional boy-meets-girl build-up. In reality, it was a love triangle between Bapu, a shy boy battling a strong sense of inadequacy, Mitra, an independent girl with a secret that eventually resulted in her downfall, and Nama, Mitra’s graceful-yet-treacherous love interest."<ref name=":0" />

According to a 2016 article in ''[[Mid-Day]],'' "Mitrachi Goshta told the story of a love triangle between three students in a Pune college. Bapu, Mitra, Nama's story is, however, not the regular triangle. When Bapu's wish of getting to know Mitra comes true, he becomes party to her inner struggles with her sexuality, and eventually gets drawn into a game of vacillating sexual politics between she and Nama, the girl she desires."<ref name=":2" />

According to [[Mint (newspaper)|''Mint'']], "In this love tangle, Bapu is smitten by the seemingly self-possessed Mitra (Phatak), who is sexually attracted to Pethe’s Nama, who reciprocates her feelings. Same-sex desire was little understood in those times and a conflicted Mitra soon launches into a self-destructive trajectory. While she is unwilling to sacrifice her innate desires, she inevitably ends up as an archetypal victim."<ref name=":4" />

== Publication ==
The original Marathi language edition of the play was published in 1982 by Nilkanth Prakashan.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lTnv6o-d_oC&pg=PA247|title=Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India|last=Natarajan|first=Nalini|last2=Nelson|first2=Emmanuel Sampath|date=1996|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313287787|pages=247|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=75dunJ3BlX0C&pg=PT2|title=Vijay Tendulkar|publisher=Katha|year=2001|isbn=9788187649175|language=en|chapter=List of Vijaya Tendulkar's Works}}</ref>

An English language translation by Gowri Ramnarayan was published in 2001 by [[Oxford University Press]].<ref name=":1" />

== Premiere ==
The original Marathi play was premiered on August 15, 1981 at the Gadkar Rangayatan in [[Thane|Thane, Maharashtra]], starring Rohini Hattangadi.<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/theatre/Play-Review-A-Friends-Story/articleshow/48901247.cms|title=Play Review: A Friend’s Story|last=Sawant|first=Purvaja|date=2015-09-11|work=The Times of India|access-date=2017-11-28}}</ref>

== Impact ==
''Frontline'' described ''Mitrachi Goshta'' as "the first Indian play on same-sex relations, which also faced empty halls when premiered with [[Rohini Hattangadi|Rohini Hattangady]] in the lead. She recalled, 'In those days, nobody talked, let alone or put up a play on the subject.'"<ref name=":3" />

According to the ''Hindustan Times'', "Tendulkar weaved in complex characters and intricate plotlines that broke the taboo on lesbian identities three decades ago. A play ahead of its time, it was intense, progressive and highly controversial."<ref name=":0" />

''Mid-Day'' described the play as a "controversial classic" that "raised many eyebrows."<ref name=":2" />

''A Mint'' review of a 2001 production says "The part of an unrepentant lesbian was certainly path-breaking in 1981."<ref name=":4" />

== References ==
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[[Category:Indian plays]]
[[Category:Plays by Vijay Tendulkar]]
[[Category:1981 plays]]
[[Category:Marathi-language plays]]
[[Category:LGBT-related plays]]
[[Category:LGBT literature in India]]
[[Category:1980s LGBT literature]]

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