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The plays of Mahesh Dattani relentlessly destabilize the long established conventions about gender roles. In ‘Dance like a Man,’ he depicts a man's quest for his individual identity in the women's world of Bharatanatyam. Even a passing glance at Mahesh Dattani’s plays reveals that his dramatic works provide a voice of dissent against the inexcusable imposition of restraints by the authoritarian patriarchy. The playwright dauntlessly antagonizes the maladies of the society. The play teases the patriarchal authority and power controlling system.