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Vijay Tendulkar is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Script Indian born on 7 january 1928 at Kolhapur (Inde)
Vijay Tendulkar (Marathi: विजय तेंडुलकर) (7 January 1928 – 19 May 2008) was a leading Indian playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator primarily in Marāthi. He is best known for his plays Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe (1967), Ghāshirām Kotwāl (1972), and Sakhārām Binder (1972). Many of Tendulkar's plays derived inspiration from real-life incidents or social upheavals, which provides clear light on harsh realities. He provided his guidance to students studying "playwright writing" in US universities. For over five decades Tendulkar had been a highly influential dramatist and theatre personality in Mahārāshtra.
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Vijay Tendulkar
Birth name Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar
Nationality Inde
Birth 7 january 1928 at Kolhapur (Inde)
Death 19 may 2008 (at 80 years) at Pune (Inde)
Awards Padma Bhushan, National Film Award for Best Screenplay, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Nationality Inde
Birth 7 january 1928 at Kolhapur (Inde)
Death 19 may 2008 (at 80 years) at Pune (Inde)
Awards Padma Bhushan, National Film Award for Best Screenplay, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
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Filmography of Vijay Tendulkar (16 films)
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Ankur: The Seedling (1974)
, 2h5Directed by Shyam Benegal
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shabana Azmi, Anant Nag, Priya Tendulkar, Vijay Tendulkar, Dalip Tahil
Rating77%
Ankur is a film that analyzes human behavior in general and heavily stresses characterization (though the story is not fictional). The story revolves around two characters, Lakshmi and Surya. Ankur is also there.
Scriptwriter
, 1h30Directed by Sridhar Rangayan
Themes Children's films
Actors Tom Alter, Mona Ambegaonkar
Rating27%
The peace of their small Konkan village is shattered when four adventurous children come upon the dangerous smuggler Don Douglas. Two of the boys are caught spying and taken away by his goons. With the help of their dog Sikander and their monkey Birbal, the rest of the team must rescue them.
Aghaat (1985)
Directed by Govind Nihalani
Genres Crime
Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Bharath Gopi, Om Puri, Sadashiv Amarapurkar, Rohini Hattangadi, Pankaj Kapur
Roles Writer
Rating75%
Kamla (1984)
Directed by Jag Mundhra
Genres Drama
Actors Shabana Azmi, Deepti Naval, A. K. Hangal, Marc Zuber, Tun tun (Uma Devi Khatri), Sulabha Deshpande
Roles Writer
Rating69%
Jaisingh Jadav (Marc Zuber), a Delhi based journalist finds that even to this date, flesh trade exist in a village in Madhya Pradesh, the victims being girls belonging to the Bhil tribe. Like any avid journalist he travels to the village followed by really buying a girl named Kamla (Deepti Naval) and takes her to his home in Delhi. As his intentions were good, some days later he holds a press conference where he reveals the actual wrongdoings going on in the village.
Ardh Satya (1983)
, 2h10Directed by Govind Nihalani
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Om Puri, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri, Shafi Ali Inamdar, Naseeruddin Shah, Sadashiv Amarapurkar
Roles Writer
Rating80%
The film opens at a party where Anant Welankar (Om Puri), a police officer, meets Jyotsna Gokhale (Smita Patil), a lecturer in literature at a local college. Anant is a sub-inspector with Bombay police. They seem to hit it off despite some initial skirmishing about ideology, and the friendship blossoms into a relationship.
Umbartha (1982)
Directed by Jabbar Patel
Genres Drama
Actors Smita Patil, Girish Karnad, Satish Alekar
Rating72%
Sulabha Mahajan (played by Smita Patil) is a woman who dreams to step out of the four walls of the house, assume greater responsibility as a citizen and play an important role in shaping the society. She has passion to do something constructive for the abused, assaulted, neglected and traumatized womenfolk of the society she lives in. She gets a job offer as Superintendent of a Women's Reformatory Home in a remote town of Sangamwadi. The job offer raises objections from her lawyer husband Subhash (played by Girish Karnad) and conservative mother-in-law who refuse to understand her need to move to the town and work for rehabilitation of the women. But her sister-in-law supports her by offering help in looking after her young daughter Rani. Determined Sulabha then goes ahead with her dream job.
Aakrosh (1980)
, 2h24Directed by Govind Nihalani
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about racism, Musical films, Political films, Bollywood
Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri, Om Puri, Mohan Agashe, Reema Lagoo
Roles Writer
Rating78%
Allegedly based on a true incident reported on page 7 of a local newspaper, the film was a scathing satire on the corruption in the judicial system and the victimization of the underprivileged by the able and the powerful.
Gehrayee (1980)
Genres Drama, Horror
Actors Padmini Kolhapure, Dr. Shriram Lagoo, Anant Nag, Amrish Puri, Rita Bhaduri
Roles Writer
Rating68%
Chennabasappa (Shriram Lagoo) is a successful high-collar manager of a reputed firm in Bangalore and lives with his very spiritual and rather docile wife Saroja (Indrani Mukherjee), son Nandish (Anant Nag) and daughter Uma (Padmini Kolhapure). Chennabasappa wants to build a house for his family in Bangalore and desperately needs money. He decides to sell his plantation spread across several acres in his ancestral village to a soap company. The plantation has been looked after by Baswa for many years. Baswa is Chennabasappa's loyal servant. Upon knowing Chennabasappa's intentions, Baswa becomes agitated as he considers Chennabasappa's act to be something close to the rape of one's mother. In his view, the piece of land is like one's mother (sign of fertility) that Chennabasappa sold for money.
22 June 1897 (1979)
, 2h1Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Sadashiv Amarapurkar, Arundhati Nag
Roles Dialogue
Rating76%
Pune was visited by the pestilence of bubonic plague which took a heavy toll of life. But the plague had another, indirect and far reaching consequence on the politics of the country. The behaviour of the military which was called out to deal with the situation arising from the pestilence caused great indignation. On 22 June in 1897, British officer Charles Walter Rand Assistant Collector of Pune and Chairman of the Special Plague Committee, Pune, and British Army officer Lieutenant Charles Egerton Ayerst, were assassinated on the Ganeshkhind road, Pune, on their way back from a Government house party celebrating the Diamond Jubilee anniversary of the coronation of Queen Victoria.
, 1h50Directed by Saeed Akhtar Mirza
Genres Drama
Actors Dr. Shriram Lagoo, Om Puri, Anjali Paigankar, Sulabha Deshpande, Rohini Hattangadi, Satish Shah
Roles Writer
Rating70%
Arvind Desai (Dilip Dhawan) is the only son of a rich businessman (Shriram Lagoo) who deals in luxury handicrafts and products. His feelings for his father are mixed. While he hates his dominating nature, he admires his power and lack of scruples. He has long discussions on art and politics with a Marxist friend (Om Puri), is seeing his father's secretary, Alice (Anjali Paigankar) and sometimes he visits a prostitute, Fatima. Much against his wishes, his marriage is arranged to a girl from a high-class family that has just returned from Paris much to Alice's mother dismay who realizes that Alice was time-pass for Arvind and nothing more. Suresh Oberoi has done cameo in movie.
Sinhasan (1978)
Directed by Jabbar Patel
Actors Nilu Phule, Dr. Shriram Lagoo, Mohan Agashe, Nana Patekar, Arun Sarnaik, Reema Lagoo
Rating78%
The movie draws parallel from the political turmoil of India. The main character is a journalist named Digu Tipnis (Nilu Phule) who uncovers a network of telephone tapping, relations between trade unions and politicians, etc. The plot addresses Maharashtra's political corruption linked with Mumbai's entrepreneurial sector.
The Churning (1976)
, 2h14Directed by Shyam Benegal
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Politique, Musical films, Political films, Bollywood
Actors Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Smita Patil, Girish Karnad, Amrish Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Mohan Agashe
Rating76%
The film traces the origins of the movement through its fictionalised narrative, based around rural empowerment, when a young veterinary surgeon, played by Girish Karnad, a character based on then, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) chief, the 33-year-old Verghese Kurien, who joined hands with local social worker, Tribhovandas Patel, which led to the setting up a local milk cooperative, in Anand, Gujarat.
Ghashiram Kotwal (1976)
Directed by Mani Kaul, Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Jabbar Patel
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Mohan Agashe, Om Puri, Tom Alter
Roles Writer
Rating69%
The play begins with an invocation to lord Ganesha. Then the Brahmins of Pune introduce themselves and we can see the morally corrupt state of affairs in Pune. Nana Phadnavis who is the Diwan (Chief Secretary) of Pune is also corrupt and visits the lavani dancer. Ghashiram is working with the lavani dancer. Ghashiram being a Brahmin goes to collect alms at the Peshwa's festival the next day. However he is ill-treated there and is charged with pick-pocketing and imprisoned for the offence. He then decides to take revenge.
Night's End (1975)
, 2h20Directed by Shyam Benegal
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Girish Karnad, Smita Patil, Anant Nag, Amrish Puri
Rating75%
Vishwam (Naseeruddin Shah) is the youngest brother of the powerful and influential village Zamindar (Amrish Puri). The Zamindar will not hesitate to do anything for the welfare and protection of his family, which also includes bending the law to his own advantage. The shy and quiet Vishwam is married to Rukmani (Smita Patil) and, unlike his brothers, does not indulge in alcohol or women, nor does he have any bad habits. Then the village gets a new schoolmaster (Girish Karnad), who has a wife, Sushila (Shabana Azmi). When Vishwam sees her for the first time, he is unable to take his eyes off her, and unable to get her out of his mind. Sushila does not reciprocate his attentions. Then one night, while the schoolmaster is enjoying a quiet dinner with his family, the bell rings and the two older brothers of Vishwam grab Sushila and take her forcibly when she goes to answer the door. Several people are present, but no one dares to raise a hand nor even a voice to stop this abduction. The distraught schoolteacher, who is denied justice by everyone from the local police officer to the district collector, is helped by the old priest (Satyadev Dubey) and finally they succeed in mobilizing the villagers and they slaughter their oppressors. In the end the frenzied villagers also kill the innocent Rukmani as well as Sushila whom her husband tried to rescue with the help of the rebellious villagers.
Samna (1975)
, 2h31Directed by Jabbar Patel
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Mohan Agashe, Nilu Phule, Dr. Shriram Lagoo, Smita Patil
Roles Story
Rating71%