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Sandhya Gokhale: ‘Putting Silhouettes on stage was slightly unnerving’
Updated On: 17 September, 2026 09:16 AM IST | Mumbai | Shriram Iyengar
After a brief hiatus, playwright Sandhya Gokhale returns to stage with a directorial that turns the knife into unspoken patriarchy. Excerpts from a freewheeling interview...

Sandhya Gokhale (right) directs Amol Palekar in a scene. Pics Courtesy/Sandhya Gokhale
What brought Silhouettes into being?
Over the years I encountered many women whose experiences have stayed with me — women who have suffered humiliation, whose contribution has gone unrecognised, and who remained unseen. I seem to have a kind of cloud memory where I store such unjust incidents, and the play grew out of that accumulation.
It is not a play about victimhood. I was much more interested in the ways women respond to what life throws at them, what they resist, what they hide, and eventually reclaim for themselves.


