The plot of this movie was based on Dalvi's play, Durgi.Vijaya Mehta directed the movie, Anupam Kher and Vijaya Mehta having acted in the leading roles. Dalvi adapted the plot of this movie from his own play, Barrister.Smita Patil and Naseeruddin Shah acted in the leading roles in this movie. This movie's plot deals with a person's search for security and small pleasures of life.The play was based on Dalvi's own novel, Andhārāchyā Pārambyā This play portrays the conflict between the traditional and the radical segments of Marathi Brahmin society in the first quarter of the twentieth century.Nilu Phule acted in this play in the main role of a disillusioned freedom fighter.This play deals with the problems of elderly people in India in modern times.Ashok Sharma created a Hindi version of this play as 'Rishte-Nate'. For his leading role in this play, Dilip Prabhavalkar received Nātyadarpan Award for Best Actor in a Serious Role in 1989. This play is about a lower middle-class couple’s struggle to adapt their lives around the needs of their mentally retarded son.For a while, Patekar acted in the Hindi version too (along with Ayesha Julka). Vijaya Mehta directed a Hindi version of Purush. Patekar acted in over 1,600 presentations of this play. The play was a high success, Nana Patekar and Reema Lagoo having acted in the leading roles. This play is about a woman’s victory over male chauvinism.Jaywant Dalvi's autobiography in Marathi has been translated into English as Leaves of Life by Prabhakar Lad.
Best of Jayawant Dalvi (Compilation of Dalvi's choice work by Subhash Bhende).Cartoonist Vasant Sarwate often illustrated Dalvi's satiric writings. Jaywant Dalvi had a long time friendly relations with noted Marathi literary couple Pu La Deshpande and Sunita Deshpande.ĭalvi wrote fiction, plays, and screenplays for Marathi and Hindi movies. He is best remembered for his dramas, and a humorous column on Marathi literary personalities which he wrote under the pseudonym: ThanthanpaaL. He took an early retirement to concentrate on writing novels. As part of USIS efforts to make good English literature available in other languages, Dalvi selected texts and able translators, and helped the cause. He worked as an assistant editor at Marathi newspapers Prabhāt and Lokmānya, and later with USIS. Jaywant Dalvi (14 August 1925 – 16 September 1994) was a prominent contemporary Marathi writer in Maharashtra, India, originally from Arawali (Dist.Sindhudurg, Tal. ( January 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations.
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