The present study brings to the fore leading Indian playwright Mahesh Dattani’s prioritization of the human element over other identities constructed on the bases of sex, religion, nation, etc. The play ‘Do the Needful’ deals with the twin taboos of gay relationships and inter-religious marriages. The writer deals with a diffident duo aspiring to get married and then circumventing the familial and social objections in an innovative way that would again be not in conformity with the standards of social morality. In this they coin their own morality. Dattani conveys the humanistic message in a truly artistic manner in this play.