Gidhade (Vultures) A Drama by Vijay Tendulkar.pptx

Gidhade (Vultures) is a popular Marathi Drama translated to English as Vultures. Written by Vijay Tendulkar, drama focuses on the selfish nature of human being and how family institution is corrupted with material and pragmatic approach. Even human relations are spoiled with the force of materialistic approach. Drama is focusing on the grey side of the middle-class society and family institution.

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1. Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar was born on January 6, 1928 in Kolhapur, Maharashtra A leading Indian playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator primarily in Marāthi . Family shifted to Mumbai where his father held a clerical job and ran a small publishing business. The literary environment at home prompted young Vijay to take up writing. He wrote his first story at age six. He grew up watching western plays, and felt inspired to write plays himself. At age eleven, he wrote, directed, and acted in his first play. Vijay Tendulkar

2. Vijay Tendulkar At age 14, he participated in the 1942 Indian freedom movement. Most of his early writings were of a personal nature, and not intended for publication.   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. Vijay Tendulkar died in Pune on May 19, 2008, after five weeks battling the effects of myasthenia gravis.

3. Vijay Tendulkar represents the contemporary modern Indian drama. A strength of his drama is varied characters – criminals coming out of the jail, exploited women, precarious life of middle class couples, broken promises and adamant decisions creating turmoil in the emotional world etc., picked up from extraordinary situations. In short, he focused the grey side of human life in his writing.

4. Vijay Tendulkar The paradoxical quality of human nature is not only the rejection of their evil mentality, but also the exhibition of manipulated outward behavior. Outwardly they are saints, but inwardly they are sinners and sadists. : Vijay Tendulkar

5. Central idea of The Vultures Can an individual or society live with complete disregard for moral values? Tendulkar writes this play with the conviction that the vulturine instinct in man is deeply rooted.

6. Characters Pitale Family: Hari Pitale (Pappa) Brother Sakharam sons Ramakant Rama (Daughter in Law) Umakant Rajaninath (Illegitimate) Manik (Daughter) Raja of (Domestic Partner) Hondur

7. Summary Brothers Hari and Sakharam start their new business with the firm Hari Sakharam and Company. Business prospers and Hari cheats his brother and occupies the business. Sakharam is cast away from the home living in debt and poverty. Pappa Pitale’s family is devoid of happiness. His legitimate children are fighting for estate. Son Ramakant is drunkard and addicted.

8. Summary Manik is drunkard and smoker, having relations with Raja of Hondur as domestic partner. She is pregnant of him. Pappa’s sons and daughter plot against their father and are waiting to drive him out one day. All three legitimate children are fighting with their father for wealth at the same time fighting among themselves for the same

9. Summary Ramakant’s wife Rama getting no child from her husband as he lost his potency due to over drinking. Like Rama, Rajaninath , though illegitimate, has a sensitive personality. He watches the violent disintegration of the family, and bears witness to it. Rama and Rajaninath come closer emotionally. Rama is pregnant of her relationship with Rajaninath .

10. Summary Ra makant initially happy with the news of pregnancy of his wife. Umakant discloses Ramakant that Rama is pregnant not of him but of Rajaninath . Ramakant plans to abort the child of Rama. Rajaninath is discarded out of the house by his brothers. Rama helps Rajaninath .

11. Summary Sons and daughter make their Pappa to drink to extract the truth about the money. The sons pretend to fight each other with the father getting trapped between them. Pappa (Hari Pitale ) gets injured. Finally, he admits to them that he has deposited some money in the Punjab Bank. Still they doubt that their father still has some money stacked away somewhere.

12. Summary In the mean time, Hari Pitale , the Pappa, and Manik have been hanging around the house, thirsty for revenge. Hari Pitale realizes that his legitimate children will kill him for property. Now he seeks his protection from his legitimate children and promises Rajaninath to make his will in his favour by back dating. Rajaninath is repulsed by the property as it has made the people loveless vultures. He detests the idea .

13. Summary Ramakant and Umakant plan to blackmail Raja of Hondur to get money. T hey hatch a plot to break Manik‘s leg and ruthlessly execute it to get twenty five thousand rupees from the Raja. However, a phone call informs them that the Raja of Hondur has died of heart attack. As a result, their plan of black mailing Manik‘s lover is vanished.

14. Summary Angry brothers now break Manik‘s room open and Ramakant kicks Manik‘s belly hard. She aborts, and in sheer agony runs away. Thus, one vulture leaves Pitale‘s house. Ramakant, in utter despair, caused by drunkenness behaves like a mad man. He doesn‘t allow Umakant into his house and suspects his intention of the g ra bb i n g h ou s e t h r oug h b lack m a g ic.

15. Characters: Hari Pitale Selfish, cunning, a smoker. He has a habit of working with his toothless mouth. Having no guilty consciousness about his any of wrong deed. He doesn‘t have any respect for his two sons. He expresses his disgust for his selfish children. Always thirsty for revenge. His diseased wife is an enemy to him and left three children with him. He can be described as seed vulture of the family.

16. Characters: Manik Daughter of Hari (Pappa) Pitale Manik appears to be a hysterical type. She smokes and drinks liquor. Her attitude towards money and other members of the family reveals her character. Manik is an embodiment of materialism. Always pursues poor substitutes in pleasure with diminishing returns. Tendulkar reminds, through her character, how the meaningless pursuit for pleasure makes her of easy virtue . She prowls and scavenges relentlessly through a variety of life styles in search of that all-fulfilling treasure.

17. Characters: Rama If Manik is one of the vultures, then Rama is the exact opposite. The contrast between Manik and Rama is black and white respectively. Rama cannot bear a child despite her almost divine goodness, because the seed that should bring it forth is ‘rotten ’ . Her infertility is a symbol of the putrid evil that her husband Ramakant, his brother and father fill the air with: contrast to Manik’s pregnancy. Rama intuitively knows that material prosperity may give satisfaction but cannot be a solution to despair hence feeling insecure in family. Attracted to Rajaninath as he is the only person in the house with moral sense.