Newspaper Review of Andha Yug

Andha Yug is a story spread over seventeen days war, complexity of which can be still felt in modern times whenever one has to choose between responsibility and emotion. The war of not just people but their pasts, their deeds, their existence. A crisis of identity and loyalty. The dilemma of being human.

Dharamvir Bharati while writing this play was himself experiencing and feeling the dreadful repercussions arising from partition of 1947 in India, World War II and Cold War around the world, thus while describing the literal blindness of Dhritrastra, he covered a larger project of uncovering the blindness and corrupt nature of the politics and society of his time which can be traced to the present times.

Andha Yug, is a play that conveys the story of a blind kingdom which chose to be indifferent to its own subjects failed to follow its own principles of rule and affection in life. A story of "dharma "and "ardhsatya" which made vengeance the meaning of life for some and motive for others. A story of God who breathes and dies through each creature. But above all, the becoming and 'being' of a warrior and how situation and choices make us what we are.

Below is the review of the play by one of the most renowned theatre critcs Diwan Singh Bajeli