LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 14:6 June 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
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Mahesh Elkunchwar and Wada Culture

Dr. A. S. Kanna

Drawn from Personal Experience

Elkunchwar has always been self-critical. It made him stop writing for eight years after the initial success of plays like Garbo and Vasanakand, and resume only when convinced that he could replace "shrillness" with substance. Belonging to the generation between playwrights Vijay Tendulkar and Satish Alekar, Elkunchwar has drawn more from personal experience, and from small town culture. His short plays like Reflection and Flower of Blood strike hard. His best-known work is The Wada Trilogy (Seagull, 2004), starting with the classic Old Stone Mansion. His recent Sonata, a triptych of women, was produced not in Marathi, but in English by Amal Allana.

Lived Away from the Centre of Marathi Theatre

Elkunchwar has lived and worked in Nagpur, away from the centre of Marathi Theatre in Pune and Mumbai. Maybe it is this perspective of an “outsider” that enables his plays to work not just as good theatre but powerful social commentary as well. Paradoxically Alekar achieves the same by being an “Insider.” He has lived in Pune for most part of his life and often directs the plays he writes and also acts in them sometimes. As a writer, his range is phenomenal and the myriad issues taken up by him are awe inspiring to say the least. It helps the cause that his writing is pungent with a wicked subversive brand of humor underlining it.

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Dr. A. S. Kanna
Lecturer in English
Silver Jubilee Govt College(Autonomous)
B-Camp
Kurnool – 518002
Andhra Pradesh
India
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