![]() ![]() Another important quality of his plays is treatment of characters, his sympathy for ‘little big man’. Most of his dramas are endowed with hisĬharacteristic dialogue, which is jerky, half finished, yet signifying more than what it says. He portrays life as it is from different angles without moralizing or philosophizing in any way. ![]() Tendulkar presents modern man in all its complexities. And another distinctive feature of these plays is that the absence of any easy solution. In all his early plays Tendulkar is concerned with the middle class individuals set against the backdrop of a hostile society. These all plays set the trend of avant-garde for Marathi theatre. Madhlya Bhinti and Ek Hoti Mulgi are more than the ‘family dramas’. In Kavalyachi Shala (1963) Tendulkar used farcical element to highlight the tragedy of middle class ambition. He also wrote around that time, Mee Jinklo Mee Harlo, and Sari Ga Sari. Menache (1960) was a play, which battled the audience with its farcical element, interspersed with lyrical movements. His plays sometimes used the expressionistic technique of dramatic make believe of dreams within the framework of naturalistic play. Tendulkar along with Girish Karnad changed the dramatic mould by demolishing three act structure of the well-made play and giving it a new mould appropriate to the performance tradition. It gave expression to the tormenting solitude and alienation of a modern individual in an urban, industrialized society.With this play, Tendulkar broke away from the three-act convention. His first play was Grihasti (1955) and last plays were completed in 1992. ![]() His plays and film scripts are penetrating studies of violence, power and repression in different forms in that contemporary Indian society. Tendulkar has written original scripts for film makers like Shyam Benegal and Govind Nihalani. ![]() His plays have given Indian theatre a rich and challenging heritage. After 1950, he has been the most influential dramatist and theatre personality for next five decades in Marathi.Tendulkar’s drama highlights the complexity of human relationships and contains a latent critique of modern Indian society, His plays, like Shakespeare’s, are neither moral, nor immoral in tone but may rather be seen amoral. Writer, novelist, short story writer and social commentator. He was playwright, screen and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, one act play Vijay Tendulkar was a leading dramatist of twentieth century. ![]()
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