Samahaara Theatre Festival 15th, 16th & 17th April 2022

Day 2

16th April 2022 8.00pm Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Hyd

Sunkara & Vasireddy's MUNDADUGU (Telugu Play)

Duration : 2hrs

Set in a village in Andhra Pradesh, Mundadugu is a play written in the year 1945 by the duo Vasireddy Bhaskar Rao and Sunkara Satyanarayana. This play is about the farmers who were oppressed and exploited by a zamindar, and how the farmers form an association and revolt against the atrocities of the zamindar.

Land revenue was one of the major sources of income for Britishers in India. The Zamindari system was one of the land tenure systems introduced in 1793, and the system was most prevalent in West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, UP, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.