Vijay Tendulkar's Role In Samali

In the words of Dhyaneswar Nadkarni:

Vijay Tendulkar leads the vanguard of avant-garde theatre that developed as a movement separate from the main stream. Tendulkar and his colleagues were dissatisfied with the decadent professional theatre that characterised the Thirties and Forties. They wanted to give theatre a new form and therefore experimented with all aspects of it including content, acting, decor and audience communication. 1

Vijay Tendulkar not only pioneered the experimental theatre movement in Marathi but also guided it. Tendulkar was actively associated with civil liberties movements in Maharastra. All this shows his great concern for his country and society. He exposes the flaws and the inevitable failure of unrealistic reforms and movements in his plays. He started writing plays while he worked as a journalist. Tendulkar wrote Kamala which is characteristically topical and intensely sentimental. It is based on a newspaper story and Tendulkar has used the world of journalism to drive his point home. It is about the girl Kamala, who is bought by a journalist Jaidev Singh to show the world that this kind of bondage still persists in India. But Kamala opens the real life of Sarita, Jaidev Singh’s wife, who considers herself to be in the same situation. Sarita’s uncle Kakasaheb plays an important role in the play, as he represents the older generation and stands as a controller of many odd situations that take place in their home. The play, Kamala, as a film,