• L.VIJAYANAND
• Dr.M.SARAT BABU

Vijay Tendulkar, one of the vanguards of Indian Drama is the most influential and controversial playwright in Indian literary scenario. For the past four decades he has been the most acclaimed theatre personality in Marathi. Writing contemporaneously with Mohan Rakesh, Badal Sircar and Mahesh Dattani, Tendulkar is one of the brightest stars who occupy an exclusive position in the field of dramas with his concern for common man and his society. To his contemporaries he was the articulator of most urgent question of his generation. To his immediate successors he was a rock like reference point by which they assess of their own work. For the future generation he will be like a place of pilgrimage. He is the precursor of Indian theatre who has refurbished it with dynamism and vitality to awaken the dormant conscience of society through the medium of drama. He has changed the form and pattern of Indian drama by demolishing the three-act play by bringing new models. Vijay Tendulkar's plays cross the limits of Marathi theatre and are completely responsible for placing Indian drama in the international maps. His plays deal with themes of public importance and they bear ample evidence to this fact that he has a message to deliver, a vision to fulfill. In the beginning, he appeared as a controversial playwright but his works portrayed him as an honest artist. He is a rebellious and courageous personality who is well known as a dramatist, screen and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist and social commentator. He was actively associated with the civil liberties movements in Maharashtra. All this reveals his concern for his country and society. He is a realist and refuses to be fooled by romantic concepts of reforms and movements. He exposes the flaws and failures of unrealistic reforms and movements in his plays. The controversy that rose after performing many of his plays is the clear proof of the unconventional attitude towards solving the human problems.

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"THE PLIGHT OF WOMEN IN THE SELECTED PLAYS OF VIJAY TENDULKAR", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.295-297, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907L94.pdf

"THE PLIGHT OF WOMEN IN THE SELECTED PLAYS OF VIJAY TENDULKAR", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp295-297, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907L94.pdf