Vijay Tendulkar
Vijay Tendulkar ( Marathi: विजय तेंडुलकर, Vijay Tendulkar, born January 6, 1928 in Kolhapur, † 19 May, 2008 Pune, Maharashtra ) was an Indian stage and screenwriter. He wrote mainly in his native language Marathi.
Biography
Vijay Tendulkar was, together with Girish Karnad, Mohan Rakesh, Badal Sircar and the new generation of realism in Indian literature and theater scene. In 1960 he founded, together with Arvind Deshpande, Vijaya Mehta and Shreeram Lagoo, the avant-garde theater group " Rangayan ". His stage works of the 1970s were psychological studies of violence with respect to current policy. The most popular are Sakharam Binder ( 1971), which had problems with censorship, and Ghashiram Kotwal (1972 ), which he processed into a film script in 1976.
Since the early 1970s, Tendulkar also worked for the film. His debut in 1971 was a reworking of an own theater piece from 1967 by Friedrich Dürrenmatt's story Die Panne. Tendulkars stories were often political revenge dramas that are located in rural areas. He took the position that will inevitably become oppressors themselves in the struggle of the feudal rulers and the oppressed box around the power of the oppressed in the political rise. His best-known, only the Indian art film associated screenplays written for Shyam Benegals Nishant (1975) and Manthan (1976 ), Jabbar Patel's Saamna (1975 ), Sinhasan (1979) and Umbartha ( 1981) and Govind Nihalanis Aakrosh (1980) and Ardh Satya ( 1983). He was also involved in the screenplay by Saeed Akhtar Mirza's Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb debut film Dastaam (1978).
Tendulkar died in May 2008 at the age of 80 years at a hospital in Pune at the consequences of the rare muscle weakness disease myasthenia gravis. He left behind two daughters. His wife and his daughter Priya, the actress was were, predeceased.