The literary environment at home prompted young Vijay to take up writing. Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar was born on 7 January 1928 in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, where his father held a clerical job and ran a small publishing business.
He is best known for his plays "Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe", "Ghashiram Kotwal", and "Sakharam Binder". He has been considered as the most influential and innovative dramatist for past five decades in Marathi theatre. Vijay Tendulkar was one of the most influential theatre playwright, essayist and movie and television writers in Marathi literature. His journalistic writings on people and events are collected in "Raatrani" (1971) and "Phuge Sabanche" (1974).Īmidst his multifarious activities, Tendulkar had found time to enrich Marathi literature by translating into Marathi, works of Mark Van Doren, Tennessee Williams, Henry James, Girish Karnad and Mohan Rakesh.
His short stories are collected in five volumes: "Kachpatre" (1958), "Meshpatre, Dwandwa" (1961), "Gane" (1966) and "Phulapakharu" (1970). Tendulkar was equally at ease in the medium of films. Vijay Tendulkar received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for playwriting in 1970 and the Padma Bhushan in 1984. Among his plays are "Shantala ! Court Chalu Ahe", which received the Kamladevi Chattopadhyay Award in 1970, "Ghasiram Kotwal", "Gidhade", and "Manus Navache Bet". An important contemporary Playwright, he has to his credit a large body of work including some forty plays. Vijay Tendulkar began his playwriting career in the 1940’s, initially for college societies and later for the Bombay group Rangayan. The latter did not receive much recognition from the audience and he vowed never to write again.īreaking the vow, in 1956 he wrote "Shrimant", which established him as a good writer. He had already written a play, " Amchyavar Kon Prem Kamar" (Who will Love us?), and he wrote the play " Gruhastha" (The Householder), in his early 20s. Tendulkar began his career writing for newspapers. (age 80) Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India, Maharashtra, India
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