However, the mother fears that the man may be the reincarnation of the controlling man she was involved with before she married her husband. The 29-year-old daughter lives in New Orleans and has finally met the perfect potential husband (Omar Maskati): He’s tall, rich and Indian. The mother and father (Bernard White) have returned to India. She lives in India I live in the states.” As Shekar was pondering what kind of story she would write, her husband, who is not Indian, asked her what kind of trope from Indian culture she might be interested in exploring.Įvil Eye is about a mother (Sarita Choudhury) and daughter (Sunita Mani), separated by the Pacific Ocean. “I talk to my mom every day on the phone. Shekar asked herself, what would she like listen to? “I love listening to podcasts, but I find it hard to listen to narrative fiction on tape.” Because she likes hearing people talk she decided to make a whole play of just phone calls.īorn in California, but raised in India, Shekar is frequently on the telephone. When Shekar was invited to write a play for Audible, she recalls, “Immediately, my first thought was, ‘Oh, let me try to write a horror play.’ I always been curious about that genre.” With an audio play, you can’t see what’s going on and that can be pretty scary.
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