GHASHIRAM KOTWAL : PORTRAYAL OF DEGRADATION OF SOCIETY

Vijay Tendulkar is a significant name amongst the contemporary Marathi playwrights. He was born in 1928
and began his career as a journalist. He took up a job as a sub-editor of a Marathi weekly. He continued in
this profession for a number of years, changing jobs and writing that he took up along side. He began with
prose but soon switched over to drama.
He has been a front runner among the avante-grade playwrights. He has written till date 30 full length plays,
23 one act plays. He has written screen plays for eight Marathi movies. He has written for popular movies
such as Saamna (1975), Simhasan(1979), Umbartha (1981). Even Tendulkar Festival was organized in Oct-
2004 in New York by Indo-American Art Council. He has been called a literary journalist, humanist and a
social critic by the I.A.C.C.
Tendulkar’s earlier plays were sentimental his later plays were serious of their intent. They dealt with sex
and violence. The impact of the twin human instincts on social fabric has been the prime concern of the
playwright.