Drama as a Means of Communication in Vijay Tendulkar’s Plays

Abstract

This paper will demonstrate the evils and exploits that reign the present Indian society in the plays of Vijay Tendulkar. It will also analyse how Tendulkar communicates the social constraints to his audience.

Recent drama in Indian languages has a remarkable growth in the present decades. After independence, contemporary Indian drama in English gives a brutal account of the social and political realities. Vijay Tendulkar is the most prolific and controversial dramatist among the Post-Independence Indian playwrights. Thematically Tendulkar’s plays have ranged from the exploration of relationship of man and woman to reinterpret social, historical and political episodes that exist in the society. His plays concentrate on different aspects of the human character and complex behaviour of human relationship. He is fascinated by the violent exploited-exploiter, husband-wife, brother-sister, lover-beloved relationship. The themes of Tendulkar’s play are based on the present socio-economic situation, family and marital relations, violence and male domination.