Koi Pan Ek Phool Nu Naam Bolo To (English: Tell Me The Name of a Flower) is a 1967 Indian psychological-thriller play by Gujarati writer Madhu Rye.
Madhu Rye wrote Koi Pan Ek Phool Nu Naam Bolo To in 1967 for Ahmedabad based theatre group Darpana.
The murder that happened at the end of the first act was real, and all the characters are interrogated to find out why Kamini killed Shekhar Khosla, the audience member in the first row.
One realizes that Kamini created an imaginary myth of a man named Shekhar Khosla to terrorize everyone around her to gain some control and agency.
The fourth act reveals that it was actually the meek and gullible looking playwright Keshav Thaker who was manipulating and feeding Kamini with the stories of Shekhar Khosla, who used to bully him and abused his wife.
Hasmukh Baradi wrote that the play exhibits a fine mastery of structure, astute presentation of conflictual episodes and a keen sense for portraying characters.
The potential to provoke thought was somewhat undermined however, in his view, by an excessive recourse to dramatics, a shortcoming which was counterbalanced by the play's formal technical virtues.
[5] Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta described the play as a murder mystery, one whose tangled secrets are gradually teased out by a combination of nimble-witted humour and viciousness exhibited in their interactions by the various members of a theatrical company.