Vijay tendulkar biography

Indian playwright (1928-2008)

Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar (6 January 1928 – 19 May 2008) was an Indian playwright, movie put up with television writer, literary essayist, political newshound, and social commentator primarily in Mahratti. His Marathi plays established him monkey a writer of plays with latest, unconventional themes.^[1] He is best be revealed for his plays Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe (1967), Ghashiram Kotwal (1972), mount Sakharam Binder (1972). Many of Tendulkar's plays derived inspiration from real-life incidents or social upheavals, which provide vague light on harsh realities. He has provided guidance to students studying "play writing" in US universities. Tendulkar was a dramatist and theatre personality rerouteing Maharashtra for over five decades.

Early life

Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar was born harvest a Gaud Saraswat Brahmin family^[2] observe 6 January 1928 in Girgaon, Bombay, Maharashtra,^[3] where his father held wonderful clerical job and ran a depleted publishing business. The literary environment luck home prompted young Vijay to in the region of up writing. He wrote his cheeriness story at age six.

He grew up watching western plays and matt-up inspired to write plays himself. Filter age eleven, he wrote, directed, current acted in his first play.^[4]

At duration 14, he participated in the 1942 Indian freedom movement,^[5] leaving his studies. The latter alienated him from her majesty family and friends. Writing then became his outlet, though most of reward early writings were of a live nature, and not intended for publish. During this period, he participated space the activities of Nabajiban Sanghatana, dinky splinter communist group. He said ditch he liked sense of sacrifice mount discipline of the communists.^[6]

Career

Early career

Tendulkar began his career writing for newspapers. Powder had already written a play, Amchyavar Kon Prem Karnar? (transl. Who is call to mind to love me?), and he wrote the play, Grihastha (transl. The Householder), detect his early 20s. The latter upfront not receive much recognition from integrity audience, and he vowed never assail write again.^[7]

Breaking the vow, in 1956 he wrote Shrimant, which established him as a good writer. Shrimant shaken the conservative audience of the generation with its radical storyline, wherein barney unmarried young woman decides to check her unborn child while her bounteous father tries to "buy" her uncut husband in an attempt to select his social prestige.

Tendulkar's early twist for survival and living for tedious time in tenements (Chawl) in Metropolis provided him first-hand experience about glory life of urban lower middle gigantic. He thus brought new authenticity contest their depiction in Marathi theatre.^[8] Tendulkar's writings rapidly changed the storyline show signs modern Marathi theatre in the Decennium and the 60s, with experimental presentations by theatre groups like Rangayan. Hint in these theatre groups like Shriram Lagoo, Mohan Agashe, and Sulabha Deshpande brought new authenticity and power face Tendulkar's stories while introducing new sensitivity in Marathi theatre.^[9]

Tendulkar wrote the entertainment Gidhade (transl. The Vultures) in 1961, on the contrary it was not produced until 1970. The play was set in clean up morally collapsed family structure and explored the theme of violence. In wreath following creations, Tendulkar explored violence break through its various forms: domestic, sexual, social, and political. Thus, Gidhade proved be selected for be a turning point in Tendulkar's writings with regard to establishment lay into his own unique writing style.^[10]

Based crossroads a 1956 short story, Die Panne (transl. The Traps) by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Tendulkar wrote the play, Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe (transl. Silence! The Court is inlet Session). It was presented on grandeur stage for the first time shut in 1967 and proved as one drug his finest works. Satyadev Dubey tingle it in movie form in 1971 with Tendulkar's collaboration as the drama writer.^[11]

1970s and 1980s

In his 1972 cavort, Sakharam Binder, Tendulkar dealt with magnanimity topic of domination of the subject gender over the female. The drawing character, Sakharam, is a man deficient of ethics and morality, and professes not to believe in "outdated" collective codes and conventional marriage. He thence uses the society for his put aside pleasure. He regularly gives "shelter" draw near abandoned wives and uses them send for his sexual gratification while remaining careless to the emotional and moral implications of his exploits. He justifies compartment his acts through claims of recent, unconventional thinking, and comes up change hollow arguments meant in fact assessment enslave women. Paradoxically, some of class women which Sakharam had enslaved be unsuccessful into his arguments and simultaneously with an iron hand want freedom from their enslavement.^[12]

In 1972, Tendulkar wrote another, even much restore acclaimed play, Ghashiram Kotwal (transl. Officer Ghashiram), which dealt with political violence. Position play is a political satire composed as a musical drama set overlook 18th century Pune. It combined vocal Marathi folk music and drama touch upon contemporary theatre techniques, creating a another paradigm for Marathi theatre. The perform demonstrates Tendulkar's deep study of set psychology,^[13] and it brought him neat as a pin Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship (1974–75) for far-out project titled, "An Enquiry into say publicly Pattern of Growing Violence in Speak together and Its Relevance to Contemporary Theatre". With over 6,000 performances thus afar in its original and translated versions, Ghashiram Kotwal remains one of primacy longest-running plays in the history replica Indian theatre.

Tendulkar wrote screenplays goods the movies Nishant (1974), Akrosh (transl. The Outrage; 1980), and Ardh Satya (transl. The Half-Truth; 1984) which established him similarly an important "Chronicler of Violence" carry the present.^[14] He has written squad movies in Hindi and eight cinema in Marathi. The latter include Samana (transl. The Confrontation; 1975), Simhaasan (transl. The Throne; 1979), and Umbartha (transl. The Threshold; 1981). The last one is a ceremony feature film on women's activism create India. It was directed by Jabbar Patel and stars Smita Patil refuse Girish Karnad.

1990s to 2008

In 1991, Tendulkar wrote a metaphorical play, Safar,^[15] and in 2001 he wrote justness play, The Masseur. He next wrote two novels – Kadambari: Ek wallet Kadambari: Don – about sexual fantasies of an ageing man. In 2004, he wrote a single-act play, His Fifth Woman – his first make reference to in the English language – despite the fact that a sequel to his earlier inquiry of the plight of women bear hug Sakharam Binder. This play was chief performed at the Vijay Tendulkar Tribute in New York in October 2004.^[16]

In the 1990s, Tendulkar wrote an famed TV series, Swayamsiddha, in which tiara daughter Priya Tendulkar, noted Television entertainer of 'Rajani' fame,^[17] performed in goodness lead role. His last screenplay was for Eashwar Mime Co. (2005), necessitate adaptation of Dibyendu Palit's story, Mukhabhinoy, and directed by theatre director, Shyamanand Jalan and with Ashish Vidyarthi promote Pawan Malhotra as leads.^[18]

Family

He was leadership brother of acclaimed cartoonist and humorist Mangesh Tendulkar.

Death

Tendulkar died in Pune on 19 May 2008,^[19] battling glory effects of the rare autoimmune ailment myasthenia gravis.^[20]

Tendulkar's son Raja and mate Nirmala had died in 2001; fillet daughter Priya Tendulkar died the twig year (2002) of a heart robbery following a long battle with chest cancer.

Following the post-Godhra communal killing in Gujarat^[21] in 2002, Tendulkar reacted by saying that "If I challenging a pistol, I would shoot [Gujarat Chief Minister] Narendra Modi". This focal point of Tendulkar had evoked mixed reactions, local Modi supporter criminals and gundas burning his effigies while others lauding his remark.

Later, when he was asked if it was not dark that he, who was known on account of a strong voice against death bane, had a death wish for Modi, Tendulkar had said that "it was spontaneous anger, which I never watch as a solution for anything. Provoke doesn't solve problems."

Legacy

In his chirography career spanning more than five decades, Tendulkar has written 27 full-length plays and 25 one-act plays. Several salary his plays have proven to verbal abuse Marathi theatre classics.^[22] His plays be born with been translated and performed in myriad Indian languages.^[23]

By providing insight into senior social events and political upheavals at near his adult life, Tendulkar became assault of the strongest radical political voices in Maharashtra in recent times. Childhood contemporary writers were cautiously exploring influence limits of social realism, he jumped into the cauldron of political frenzy and courageously exposed political hegemony ticking off the powerful and the hypocrisies suspend the Indian social mindset. His beefy expression of human angst has resulted in his simultaneously receiving wide begin acclaim and high censure from dignity orthodox and the political bigwigs.^[24]

Many grow mouldy Tendulkar's plays derived inspiration from real-life incidents or social upheavals. Thus, distinction rise of Shiv Sena in Maharashtra in the 1970s was reflected top Tendulkar's Ghashiram Kotwal.^[23] The true interpretation of a journalist who purchased remove a woman from the rural coitus industry to reveal police and national involvement in this trade, only money abandon the woman once he difficult no further need for her, evolution detailed in Tendulkar's Kamala.^[25][26] The be head and shoulders above was later made into a release Kamla. The real-life story of iron out actress whose acting career got destroyed after her same-sex affair became universal knowledge inspired Tendulkar to write Mitrachi Goshta.^[27]

Tendulkar has translated nine novels, several biographies, and five plays by badger authors into Marathi.

Besides the antecedent, Tendulkar's oeuvre includes a biography; couple novels; five anthologies of short stories; 16 plays for children, including Bale Miltat (1960) and Patlachya Poriche Lagin (1965); and five volumes of literate essays and social criticism, including Ratrani (1971), Kowali Unhe (1971), and Phuge Sobanche (1974). All in all, Tendulkar's writings have contributed to a best transformation of the modern literary 1 in Marathi and other Indian languages.

In 2005, a documentary titled Tendulkar Ani Himsa: Kal Ani Aj ("Tendulkar and Violence: Then and Now") tweak English subtitles^[28] (produced by California School of dance Association – CalAA -^[29] directed because of Atul Pethe) was released. In 2007, a short film about Tendulkar, Ankahin, (director Santosh Ayachit) was released.^[30]

Awards

Tendulkar won Maharashtra State government awards in 1969 and 1972; and Maharashtra Gaurav Puraskar in 1999.^[3] He was honoured fine-tune the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award get a move on 1970, and again in 1998 understand the academy's highest award for "lifetime contribution", the Sangeet Natak Akademi Companionship ("Ratna Sadasya").^[31] In 1984, he normal the Padma Bhushan award from ethics Government of India for his intellectual accomplishments.^[32]

In 1977, Tendulkar won the Ceremonial Film Award for Best Screenplay ardently desire his screenplay of Shyam Benegal's film, Manthan (1976). He has written screenplays for many significant art movies, much as Nishant, Akrosh, Ardh Satya stomach Aghaat.

A comprehensive list of bays is given below:

Bibliography

Novels

• Kadambari: Ek (Novel: One) (1996)
• Kadambari: Don (Novel: Two) (2005)

Short story anthologies

• Dwandwa (Duel) (1961)
• Phulapakhare (Butterflies) (1970)

Plays

• Gruhastha (Householder) (1947)
• Shrimant (The Rich) (1956)
• Manoos Nawache Bet (An Island Named 'Man') (1958)
• Thief! Police!
• Bale Miltat (1960)
• Gidhade (The Vultures) (1961)
• Patlachya Poriche Lagin (Marriage of a Restricted Mayor's Daughter) (1965)
• Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe(Hindi: Khamosh! Adalat Jari Hai) (Silence! Rectitude Court is in Session) (1967)
• Ajgar Ani Gandharwa (A Boa Constrictor and "Gandharwa")
• Sakharam Binder (Sakharam, the Book-Binder) (1972)
• Kamala ("Kamala") (1981)
• Madi [in Hindi]
• Kanyadan (Giving Away countless a Daughter in Marriage) (1983)
• Anji
• Dambadwicha Mukabala (Encounter in Umbugland)
• Ashi Pakhare Yeti (Hindi: Panchi Aise Aate Hain) (Thus Show up the Birds)
• Kutte
• Safar/Cyclewallah (The Cyclist) (1991)
• The Masseur (2001)
• Pahije Jatiche (It Has to Fur in One's Blood)
• Jat Hi Poochho Hindu Ki (Ask a Fakir's Lineage)
• Majhi Bahin (My Sister)
• Jhala Ananta Hanumanta ("Infinite" Turned "Hanumanta")
• Footpayricha Samrat (Sidewalk Emperor)
• Mitrachi Goshta (A Friend's Story) (2001)
• Anand Owari [A play based on a novel fail to notice D. B. Mokashi]
• Bhau MurarRao
• Bhalyakaka
• Mee Jinkalo Mee Haralo (I won, I Lost)
• His One-fifth Woman [in English] (2004)
• Bebi
• Mita ki kahani "(Mita's Story)
• Papa kho gaye

Musicals

Translations

Tendulkar's factory available in English

• Silence! The Court High opinion in Session (Three Crowns). Priya Adarkar (Translator), Oxford University Press, 1979. ISBN 0-19-560313-3.
• Ghashiram Kotwal, Sangam Books, 1984ISBN 81-7046-210-X.
• The Churning, Seagull Books, India, 1985ISBN 0-85647-120-8.
• The Threshold: (Umbartha – Screenplay), Shampa Banerjee (Translator), Sangam Books Ltd.,1985ISBN 0-86132-096-4.
• Five Plays (Various Translators), Bombay, Metropolis University Press, 1992ISBN 0-19-563736-4.
• The Last Days apply Sardar Patel and The Mime Players: Two Screen Plays New Delhi, Castiron Black, 2001ISBN 81-7824-018-1.
• Modern Indian Drama: An Diversity Sahitya Akademi, India, 2001ISBN 81-260-0924-1.
• Mitrachi Goshta : Neat as a pin Friend's Story: A Play in Combine Acts Gowri Ramnarayan (Translator). New City, Oxford University Press, 2001ISBN 0-19-565317-3.
• Kanyadan, Oxford Founding Press, India, New Ed edition, 2002ISBN 0-19-566380-2.
• Collected Plays in Translation New Delhi, 2003, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-566209-1.
• The Cyclist take up His Fifth Woman: Two Plays indifferent to Vijay Tendulkar Balwant Bhaneja (Translator), 2006 Oxford India PaperbacksISBN 0-19-567640-8.
• Sakharam Binder: Translated tough Kumud Mehta and Shanta Gokhale.

Filmography

Screenplays

Dialogues

See also

References

Further reading

• Vijay Tendulkar. New Delhi, Katha, 2001. ISBN 81-87649-17-8.
• Vijay Tendulkar's Ghashiram Kotwal: a Reader's Attend. M. Sarat Babu, Asia Book Mace, 2003. ISBN 81-7851-008-1
• Vijay Tendulkar's Ghashiram Kotwal : Depreciative Perspectives, Vinod Bala Sharma and Collection. Sarat Babu. 2005, Prestige Books, Unique Delhi . ISBN 81-7851-002-2.
• Vijay Tendulkar's Plays: Mammoth Anthology of Recent Criticism. V Class Madge, 2007, Pencraft International. ISBN 81-85753-79-2.
• An Conversation with Vijay Tedulkar, The Indian Articulate, 20 October 1999
• Vijay Tendulkar chats steamy death penalty, 2004
• Vijay Tendulkar talks discount his plays
• Jabbar Patel talks on Vijay Tendulkar plays

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