- Sakharam Binder
Sakharam Binder (Sakharam, the Binder) is a play by
Marathi playwrightVijay Tendulkar and was first performed in 1972 [ [http://www.iaac.us/Tendulkarfestival/Tendulkarbio.htm Tendulkar Biography] ] .ynopsis
It is about a man, a bookbinder by profession, who doesn't believe either in conventionality, be it in marriage, morality, or social codes, yet feels free to use the society and its people (women), for his selfish motives, without any personal ethics to guide him, he regularly gives 'shelter' to cast-off wives, only to later use them himself for his personal gratification. [ [http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?html_title=&tols_title=Sakharam%20Binder%20(Play)&pdate=20041103&byline=Jonathan%20Kalb&id=1098953824821 NY Times Review] ]
Nilubhau Phule acted in this play.
Adaptation and Translations
The play has since been adapted [ [http://www.mumbaitheatreguide.com/dramas/hindi/sakharam_binder_retold.asp Sakhram Retold] ] and translated into many Indian languages, including Hindi, Bengali and English.
Its most recent performance in English was as the closing play at the month-long, Tendulkar Festival, held at New York, in 2004 [ [http://www.iaac.us/Tendulkarfestival/home.htm Tendulkar festival] ] .
Further reading
* Five Plays, Vijay Tendulkar. "(Various Translators), Bombay, Oxford University Press, 1992". ISBN 0195637364.
* Collected Plays in Translation: Kamala, Silence! the Court Is in Session, Sakharam Binder, the Vultures, Encounter in Umbugland, Ghashiram Kotwal, a Friend's Story, Kanyadaan. "New Delhi, 2003, Oxford University Press." ISBN 0195662091.
* The Archetypal Identity of Laxmi in Sakharam Binder, "Mohan R. Limaye, Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1 (1978), pp. 135-143"
* [http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/000636.html Champa and Laxmi in Sakharam Binder]References
External links
* [http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117925503.html?categoryid=33&cs=1 ‘Sakharam Binder’, Review, Variety, Nov. 9, 2004]
* [http://www.rediff.com/movies/2004/nov/09sakha.htm Detailed Story of 'Sakharam Binder']
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