He “became a picture.” That’s what we say when somebody dies. Chhobi hoye giyechhe.

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Say it again?

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Chhobi hoye giyechhe.

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Choton relishes being the translator, toggling nimbly between Bangla and English, Grindr and academese. But when he returns to his grandfather’s house in Kolkata with his boyfriend Raheem, an unexpected discovery leaves Choton at the limits of language.

Public Obscenities is a bilingual play from writer-director Shayok Misha Chowdhury about the things we see, the things we miss, and the things that turn us on.

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