On A Muggy Nightin Mumbai Analysis

In the play On a Muggy Nightin Mumbai,
All the three Acts are three in one. Psychic turmoil of all the characters, their pleasure and pain, frustration and revolt against the society are balanced placing them in the silhouette and the front show of the stage setting. This juxtaposition of interior and the exterior or the front and the back stage against each other is to create a deep impression on the audience’ s mind as to the conflicts that goes in their consciousness, yet how they struggle to reconcile with the stern reality of society- a reality divorced from free expression and fair play.(Bhadury 46)
In the play, the plots of both the acts occur simultaneously in the office as well as the house. Two things that remain unchanged in the

The decor is expensive, perhaps tasteful, but badly maintained. Upstage centre is dominated by a well-stocked bar.On a higher level is the bedroom of Jiten and Niten’s mother, referred to as Baa. She is bedridden and is visible through the screen wall when it is back-lit. A staircase is visible along with a small landing which leads to both Baa’s bedroom and Dolly’s bedroom off-stage. Upstage left is a largish window overlooking the front of the house. Next to it is a stereo system-music can be heard. It is a thumri sung by Naina Devi. Downstage left, exit to the kitchen and downstage right is the main door of the house. (CP 233)
The living room of Dolly and JitenTrivedi is in a posh suburb of Bangalore. The decor is expensive, perhaps tasteful.
In the play Where There’s a Will the stage setting starts like
In the lavish house of Hasmukh

Preeti is drifting in and out of the kitchen, loading the table with food for dinner. She is pregnant. Hasmukh enters through the main door with his walking stick. (CP 455)
Each room is created with specific details to set the tone for the play. Gujarati milieu is the setting of the play.
In On a Muggy Night in Mumbai there are multi sets on stage. Actually,
The stage divided into three acting areas. The first area is a small flat, beautifully done up in ‘ethnic chic’ fashion. . . . The flat located in the up market area of Marine Drive, though not quite Pali Hill. The entire flat is almost too perfect to be real. . . .
The second area is completely non-realistic set comprising three levels, is black and expansive and characters therein are immediately suspended in a ‘shoonya’ where they are forced to confront their inner thoughts.
Below this is Kamlesh’s bedroom. The bedroom is realistic but hidden behind a gauze wall, giving it some mystery and secrecy.
The backdrop of these three acting areas is the Mumbai skyline, engulfing the creative world of Kamlesh, a secret private space of the bedroom and the deeper space that belongs to the inner thoughts of the characters. (CP