To Mee Navhech

That's not me) is a classic Marathi-language play written by Acharya Atre based on the court case of Madhav Kazi, who was an active criminal during the years between 1955 and 1960.

To Mee Navhech is probably the first play in the world where the same actor has to do five completely different roles, not to merely add to novelty value or as a stunt, but because the story demands it.

[2][failed verification] To Mee Navhech was also among the first Marathi plays to make use of the Revolving Stage between two scenes.

The play starts with a courtroom scene where the public prosecutor examines a witness in embezzlement case of a fraud who claims that he is a tobacco merchant Lakhoba Lokhande from Napani village.

The first witness is Sayyed Mansoor, who claims that Lakhoba Lokhande is his actually his brother Hyder who vanished from his home 12 years ago & has a wife Sultana & a kid.

20,000 for a case involving fraud, wherein Hyder posed as a secretary to the PM, to a simpleton clerk & took Rs.

Lakhoba in his cross-examination brings up a lot of hidden facts like police case of fraud against him & his son & claims that he is lying in the court under duress.

As usual, he ends his argument with "To Mee Navhech" Next witness is Agnihotri who was earlier defrauded in Delhi for Rs.

In the fear the witness goes back an forth in his statement, in the end, gets entangled in the argument if he has committed a crime by bribing a govt official, who in reality was a fraud.

Sunanda narrates that she first met Divakar at a marriage bureau where he posed as a sophisticated, London educated high ranking bureaucrat at Bangalore.

Paranjape for fraud, Divakar dismisses him with his demeanour of high ranking official & fake ID.

On cross-examination of Sunanda, he asks her how come she marry a person in within 2 days of meeting him for the first time, without verifying anything ending with 'To mee navmesh'.

Basically Ashok Paranjape had anticipated this situation & made sure there isn't single evidence like letters, photos or the priest.

As police his takes him away, his elder brother pleads him to ask forgives to the lord & see his wife & mother.