Hypocrisy in the Plays of Vijay Tendulkar

Abstract

The name of Vijay Tendulkar has been in the forefront of the Marathi drama after the Independence. His personality both as a man and writer is multifaceted. He is the most creative and eminent dramatist among the modern Marathi Playwrights. His plays Sakharam Binder and Ghashiram Kotwal created a storm in society and at the same time, he won the highest award in the field of dramatics, on an all India level for his play Silence! The Court is in Session. His literary tendency can be observed through his numerous articles, short stories and one-act plays. Though his eyes are focussed on the middle class, his chief targets are the human mind, the way of life and the complexities there in. Most of the Tendulkar’s plays are the studies in violence, exploitation, power, hypocrisy, greed and repression in different forms of the contemporary Indian reality. Exploitation is one of the most common themes in his plays as he portrayed the element of exploitation successfully. This Reseaech article makes a humble attempt to explain how hypocrisy is successfully employed by the playwright, Vijay Tendulkar.

Keywords: Hypocricy, Exploitation, Jealousy, Self-Alienation, violence etc.