An adaptation of Manto's masterpiece short story about the exchange of mental patients between India and Pakistan at the time of Partition. "Toba tek Singh" is the nickname of a sikh inmate in a Lahore mental asylum who hails from 'Toba Tek Singh" and refuses to be sent across the border.There is one lunatic claiming to be Jinnah, another, one calling himself Nehru and calling himself Master Tara Singh and God is sitting on a tree. The play yet another one as well as the story is a powerful indictment of the insanity and inhumanity which accompanied the partition of 1947.
The reaction of the families, especially of the in-laws and husbands of these expectant women, reveals the harsh treatment that women are subjected to when they give birth to baby girls. This attitude is not only prevalent in the illiterate communities of our society but the so-called elite and educated classes behave in a similar manner. Birth of a girl is usually mourned and the mother has to face serious consequences sometimes to the extent of being divorced by their husbands.