![]() His play, Gidhade (The Vultures), featured a woman character wearing a sari that had a large red dot in front. And it was that "plain" language, those ordinary, "vulgar" characters who struck a chord with audiences across five decades we recognised something of ourselves in all of Tendulkar's plays, even if we didn't always like that recognition. ![]() His plays were often heralded by clashes with the censor, or greeted with horror by the more conservative.īut Sakharam Binder is still watched Tendulkar's portrayal of a man who could be benefactor and abuser, who makes his bargains openly with the women he simultaneously rescues and uses, remains one of the most intricate and compelling character studies in Indian theatre. "Where is the upliftment": indeed, that was often how the Indian establishment greeted a new work from Vijay Tendulkar, the great Marathi writer who died yesterday after many years of fighting myasthenia gravis. Many years ago, watching a performance of Sakharam Binder in Calcutta, I heard someone in the audience say, "What kind of play is this? The language is so plain, the characters are so vulgar "" where is the upliftment?" ![]()
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