LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 6 June 2011
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Vijay Tendulkar as a Prolific and Creative Marathi Writer


Pramila Pandey, M.A., Ph.D.

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Vijay Tendulkar – A Great Indian Playwright

Vijay Tendulkar is one of the four great Indian dramatists of the twentieth century - Mohan Rakesh in Hindi, Badal Sircar in Bengali, Girlish Kennard in Kannada and Vijay Tendulkar in Marathi. His plays like Shantata! Court Chalu Ahe translated into English by Priya Adarkar as Silence! The court is in session! has brought him an international fame and recognition. For the past four decades he has been the most influential dramatist and theater personality in Marathi, the principal language of the state of Maharashtra, which has had a continuous literary history since the end of the classical period in India. Marathi has nearly seventy-five million speakers today.

A life long resident of the city of Mumbai, Mr. Tendulkar is the author of thirty full-length plays and twenty-three on-act plays, several of which have become classics of modern Indian theater. Ghashiram Kotwal (1972), a musical combining Marathi folk performance style and contemporary theatrical techniques, is one of the longest-running plays in the world, with over six thousand performances in India and abroad, in the original and in translation.

Mr. Tendulkar's output in Marathi also includes eleven plays for children, four collections of short stories, one novel, and five volumes of literary essays and social criticism, all of which have created for Indian Drama a remarkable modern literary landscape. He is an important translator in Marathi having rendered nine novels and two biographies as well as five plays in to the language. He is the author of original stories and screen plays for eight films in Marathi, including Umbartha (The Threshold) (1981) a ground breaking feature film on woman's activism in India. Vijay Tendulkar is the father of actress . New York's Indo-American Cultural Council dedicated October 2004 as a tribute to Tendulkar's prodigious literary contributions, presenting in English a wide range of his plays and films. Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipaul has called him India's best playwright.

Tendulkar’s Journey

Beginning from Grihastha (1955) Tendulkar has traveled a long way. A journalist by profession, he has penned daily columns is newspapers, started his career as a creative author by writing short stories, composed children's plays, diverged later into screen playwriting, translated and adapted novels and plays both from English and from Marathi. His creativity has prismatic quality and a multitude of colors seem to emanate from it. The greatest quality which Tendulkar can claim as a creative writer and dramatist is the ability to simultaneously involve and distance himself from his creation.

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