Critical Analysis Of The Vultures By Vijay Tendulkar

The Contemporary tradition of urban realist predominately domestic drama appears in several influential plays of Vijay tendulkar which forms a significant dramatic genre. In fact, by virtue of the urban settings, and the preoccupation with
Contemporary middle class life, the dramatists like Vijay tendulkar, Mahesh Dattani, Mohan Rakesh and Badal Sircar set their realistic works in the middle-class milieu in the realistic naturalistic mode. Shifted in the private space of middle-class urban home, Tendulkar’s The vultures, 1970 (originally “Gidhade” in Marathi) also sets into the group of realistic naturalistic play. The Vultures tendulkar stresses the importance of a range of individualistic representations drawing an ideas of violence, greed, lust and spiritual and cultural decadence. He seems to be conforming to the Marxian theory that the economic aspect of society is the ultimate determinant of other aspects. Marx further argues that what We call ‘culture’ is not an independent reality but it is inseparable from the historical conditions in which human beings create their material lives. The relation of exploitation and domination which govern the social and economic order of a particular phase of human history will in some sense ‘determine’ the whole cultural life of the society. The vulture enacts all these devilish and satanic qualities and crudities existing among the members of the family of Hari Pitale. Hari Pitale deceives his own brother