Paan Gaadis are owned by Maharashtrians too

It is known that Santosh Pawar’s Aamhi Paachpute has been a target of bomb attacks. Even though in the play Aamhi Paachpute there is no communal undertones still the play was targeted twice. It seems yesterday just before the play Aamhi Paachpute was to be screened at Gadkari Rangayatan, which is in Thane, a crude bomb went off at the parking lot, injuring seven. Also, on Saturday when the same play was shown in Vashi, a person from the audience discovered that there was a bomb on a seat, which was defused later. But the playwright Santosh Pawar says that there are no such communal undertones in the play.
Aamhi Paachpute is literally a story about a family called Panchputes, which could also be interpreted as We, Five Sons. It is a story about five brothers heading to the swayamvar of a local chief’s daughter. At the ceremony they are told of a Gaadi (Kingdom) bequeathed by their forefathers. The two-hour play revolves around how the brothers search for the kingdom. At the end they realize that they had misinterpreted the word Gaadi. They discovered that Gaadi meant a Paan Gaadi that is a stall of Paan and not Kingdom. And so on. But there is a statement in the play that is, “Marathi manoos swata khaat naahi aani dusryaala hi Khau det naahi.” But hopefully it is taken in a wrong manner by the North Indians for taking over Mumbai.