Vijay Dhondo Tendulkar was an eminent Marathi playwright, screenplay writer and a journalist. The Peshwa summons Nana who orders Ghashiram to be killed in the most derogatory way possible. The Brahmins then complain to the Peshwa. The situation goes out of hand when a few people in the jail die out of suffocation. In the mean time, Ghashiram's daughter is impregnated by Nana, and dies during childbirth. He starts asking for permits for everything and starts throwing people in jail for the smallest offences. Having got the post he begins to enforce strict rules in the city.
Ghashiram barters his own daughter to get the post of Kotwal (police chief) of Pune from Nana. However he is ill-treated there and is charged with pick-pocketing and imprisoned for the offence. Ghashiram being a Brahmin goes to collect alms at the Peshwa's festival the next day. Ghashiram is working with the lavani dancer. Present paper highlights the same fact by preseting a review on Vijay Tendulkar’s play Ghashiram Kotwal, where Ghashiram sacrifices his own daughter and makes a deal with Nana Phadnavis and becomes the kotwal of Pune just to get power and to take revenge of his insult. Nana Phadnavis who is the Diwan (Chief Secretary) of Pune is also corrupt and visits the lavani dancer. Then the Brahmins of Pune introduce themselves and we can see the morally corrupt state of affairs in Pune. The play begins with an invocation to lord Ganesha. It was first performed on 16 December 1972, by the Progressive Drama Association,Pune. Its theme is how men in power give rise to ideologies to serve their purposes, and later destroy them when they become useless. Based on the life of Nana Phadnavis (1741–1800), one of the prominent ministers in the court of the Peshwa of Pune. The play is a political satire, written as historical drama. ISBN 978-0-19-566209-2.Ghashiram Kotwal is a Marathi play written by playwright Vijay Tendulkar in 1972 as a response to the rise of a local political party, Shiv Sena, in Maharashta.
New Delhi, 2003, Oxford University Press.
Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe started the New Cinema movement in Marathi cinema and is considered one of India’s finest films. Noted Marathi playwright and stage director Satyadev Dubey directed a Marathi film based on the play, with the same name in 1971. Its playwright, Vijay Tendulkar, got national recognition in the form of the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Award for drama in 1970 and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama) Award in 1970 for playwriting.
A (mock) charge of infanticide is leveled against Miss Benare, another cast-member.Īll of a sudden, the pretend-play turns into an accusatory game when it emerges from the trial that Miss Benare is carrying an out-of-wedlock child from her failed illicit relationship with Professor Damle, the missing cast-member. An improvised, free-flowing 'rehearsal' is arranged and a mock trial is staged to make the novice understand court procedures. When a cast-member does not show up, a local stagehand is asked to replace him. Plot Ī group of teachers plan to stage a play in a village.
This was the first movie made by this group (see Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan (1978), a collective effort in direction and cinematography. With Mohan Agashe, Tom Alter, Rajani Chavan, Vandana Pandit. The play had his wife Sudha Shivpuri in the lead role and is regarded as a key milestone in the history of Indian Theatre. Hariharan, Mani Kaul, Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Kamal Swaroop. Actor-director, Om Shivpuri, directed the Hindi translation of the play as Khamosh! Adaalat Jaari Hai. The BBC showed its English version, filmed by Satyadev Dubey.
The play has since been translated into 16 languages in India and abroad.