![]() ![]() In this play, we see Om pretty much selling his life in order to obtain the top dollar for this family, well at least in India it was considered top dollar. But as the play furthers itself, we see the promise becoming dark and uneasy.īy seeing the financial situations of Om and his wife Jaya, we can appreciate money as a necessity to life. We see the family go through wonderful meals which can seem as space-age because the family is taking off at the beginning of the play with good promise. This play also has a prostitute and revolves around poor financial situations resorting to doing very unfortunate jobs to keep their funds up. This play reminds the reader about a Brothel mainly because it is takes place in India, although this time it is Mumbai and not Calcutta. This play feels nice in the beginning because it seems as after signing up as organ donor, leading a happy and healthy life is guranteed and certained, but what lies underneath is when Om and his small family starts to enjoy their new lifestyles, they also start to deny the consequences. Ginni pays him to lead and live a healthy life, so when it is time for doing an organ, there is no difficulty or problem in doing so. We see the character, Om, signing up as an organ donor for Ginni who is an American woman simply because there is no more jobs in India. Harvest is a play written by Manjula Padmanabhan focusing geographically on Mumbai, India. ![]() This is a perfect example of how money doesn’t buy happiness. If Jeetu feels this way rightfully so, then why does Om say that he is selfish? Is Om only worried about the money he is going to be receiving from this procedure?Įven though the family received money and were able to live a much better life through organ donation, many problems were created between each other. “Why? Because I’m in a place beyond death. And I will never accept, I will never live with this…”(64) Now that Jeetu is not able to see, he feels trapped and is built up with a lot of anger. “I won’t listen! Because listening brings acceptace. When the Guards bring Jeetu back, he comes in white silk pyjamas and his head all wrapped up in bandages. On the other hand, Jaya is very anxious and upset about what is taking place. In this scene, Om acts very cold-hearted and seems to only care about the money he is going to be receiving. Om expresses to Jaya that since they don’t care about Om and his family, the less fortunate that they are going to operate on Jeetu even though they made a mistake and took the wrong person. ![]() Once the procedure is over his eyes will be donated and he will be left wearing a pair of goggles that look like a pair of imitation eyes. In scene 4 (pg 61) The Guards take Jeetu instead of Om to do the eye surgery. And why did I lose it? Because I am a clerk and nobody needs clerks anymore! There are no new jobs now…there’s nothing left for people like us! Don’t you know that? There’s us and the street gangs and the rich.” (pg 62) “I went because I lost my job in the company. The main character, Om Prakash loses his job while living in a one-bedroom apartment with his family and decides to sell unspecified organs through a company called, InterPlanta Services Inc. With people still suffering and finding a way to support their families with food and shelter they will do almost anything to make a living. In India, there are more developed places than others. This screenplay deals with the first and third world countries. In the screenplay Harvest, by Manjula Padmanabhan, many global borders arise in which organ selling occurs in India in the near future, 2010. Harvest won the 1997 Onassis Prize as the best new international play. Om’s diseased brother Jeetu is taken to give organs instead of Om. The recipient, Ginni, periodically looks in on them via a videophone and treats them condescendingly. InterPlanta and the recipients are obsessed with maintaining Om’s health and invasively control the lives of Om, his mother Ma, and wife Jaya in their one-room apartment. Om Prakash, a jobless Indian agrees to sell unspecified organs through Inter Planta Services, Inc to a rich person in first-world for a small fortune. The play confronts us with a futuristic Bombay of the year 2010. Padmanabhan drew the attention of the world when Harvest won the Onassis cash-rich award for the theatre at Athens (Greece) out of more than a hundred entries. ![]()
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