| Karl Marx in Kalbadevi | |
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| Written by | Uttam Gada |
| Characters | Karl Marx (played by Satchit Puranik) |
| Date premiered | 22 March 2013 |
| Place premiered | National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai |
| Original language | Gujarati |
| Subject | Karl Marx |
| Genre | One-man play |
| Setting | Present time Kalbadevi, Mumbai |
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Karl Marx in Kalbadevi is a 2013 one-man play about the German philosopher Karl Marx played by Satchit Puranik. Written by Uttam Gada and directed by Manoj Shah, the play depicts an imaginary visit by Marx to Kalbadevi, the hypercapitalist area of Mumbai, India. The play tried to introduce to a commercially-minded Gujarati community the ideas of a radical critic of capitalist society, in a style that adopts song, dance, repartee, and interactive badinage with the audience to make his complex ideas more suitable to the taste and cultural background of local audiences.
Karl Marx in Kalbadevi was successful and has had hundreds of performances, but received mixed reviews from theatre critics. It was praised for Puranik's performance and for presenting complex ideas simply but criticised for its script.