Abstract: Indian society, being a patriarchal one, has been victimizing both men and women since long time. It hides its brutal realities behind the mask of modern civilization.Mahesh Dattani, one of the celebrated modern playwrights, creates plays with their themes relating to modern urban Indian family. His protagonists search for their identities within the oppressive societal structures of customs,tradition etc. He presents how the patriarchal domination makes the women to live under extreme oppression and accept it as “natural.” In his one of the most celebrated works Bravely Fought the Queen, Dattani dexterously emerges the issue of oppression, domination of patriarchy on both the males and the females giving them lifetime traumas. This paper aims to depict Dattani’s tortured characters focusing on the play Bravely Fought the Queen that represents all the tormented people in India facing struggles for existence being caged in an invisible prison named patriarchy.