Vijay Tendulkar

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Vijay Tendulkar

Vijay Tendulkar ( Marathi : विजय तेंडुलकर, Vijay Teṇḍulkar ; born January 6, 1928 in Kolhapur , † May 19, 2008 in Pune , Maharashtra ) was an Indian playwright and screenwriter . He wrote mostly in his mother tongue, Marathi.

biography

Vijay Tendulkar, along with Girish Karnad , Mohan Rakesh and Badal Sircar, belonged to the new generation of realism in the Indian literary and theater scene. In 1960 he founded the avant-garde theater group "Rangayan" together with Arvind Deshpande , Vijaya Mehta and Shreeram Lagoo . His theatrical works of the 1970s were psychological studies of violence in relation to current politics. The best known are Sakharam Binder (1971), who had problems with censorship, and Ghashiram Kotwal (1972), which he turned into a film script in 1976.

Tendulkar also worked in film since the early 1970s. His debut in 1971 was an adaptation of his own play from 1967 based on Friedrich Dürrenmatt's story Die Panne . Tendulkar's stories were often political revenge dramas set in rural areas. He took the position that in the struggle between the feudal rulers and the oppressed castes for power, the oppressed in the political ascent inevitably become oppressors themselves. His most famous scripts, which belong exclusively to Indian art films, were written for Shyam Benegals Nishant (1975) and Manthan (1976), Jabbar Patels Saamna (1975), Sinhasan (1979) and Umbartha (1981) as well as Govind Nihalanis Aakrosh (1980) and Ardh Satya ( 1983). He was also involved in the script of Saeed Akhtar Mirza's debut film Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaam (1978).

Tendulkar died in May 2008 at the age of 80 in a hospital in Pune as a result of the rare muscle weakness disease myasthenia gravis . He left two daughters. His wife and daughter Priya , who was an actress, had previously died.

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SURNAME Tendulkar, Vijay
ALTERNATIVE NAMES तेंडुलकर, विजय (Marathi); Teṇḍulkar, Vijay (IAST)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian playwright and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolhapur
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 2008
Place of death Pune , Maharashtra