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This conference will examine and pay tribute to the theatre and film work of Vijay Tendulkar. He is author of Sakharam binder (Sakharam the Bookbinder, 1972) and Ghashiram kotwal (1972), one of the longest-running musicals in the world, with over 6,000 performances in India and abroad, and of films like Nishant (The End of the Night, 1975), Akrosh (Rage, 1980), and Aghat (The Wound, 1986), which defined the paradigm for the “middle cinema” movement in India. Vijay Tendulkar will give the keynote address. 1-5 p.m., Wednesday, October 6, Martin E. Segal Theatre
Res. Code 4909. Free. $10 suggested donation guarantees a seat; guaranteed seat to CUNY students who RSVP. Call Continuing Education and Public Programs at 1.212.817.8215, or continuinged@gc.cuny.edu.
Celebration: An Evening with Vijay Tendulkar
Join us for an evening celebrating Vijay Tendulkar, a leading contemporary Indian playwright, screen and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator. For the past four decades he has been the most influential dramatist and theatre personality in the Marathi language. Born in Bombay in 1928, he is the author of thirty full-length plays and twenty-three one-act plays, several of which have become classics of modern Indian theatre. The evening will include a reading of excerpts from the upcoming NYC production of Sakharam Binder by The Play Company; short excerpts of his major films; a moderated interview with the playwright; and the presentation of a Lifetime Award by The Indo-American Arts Council. 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, October 6, Martin E. Segal Theatre
Res. Code 4910. Free $10 suggested donation guarantees a seat; guaranteed seat to CUNY students who RSVP. Call Continuing Education and Public Programs at 1.212.817.8215, or continuinged@gc.cuny.edu.
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Vijay Tendulkar
« Back to EventsThis conference will examine and pay tribute to the theatre and film work of Vijay Tendulkar. He is author of Sakharam binder (Sakharam the Bookbinder, 1972) and Ghashiram kotwal (1972), one of the longest-running musicals in the world, with over 6,000 performances in India and abroad, and of films like Nishant (The End of the Night, 1975), Akrosh (Rage, 1980), and Aghat (The Wound, 1986), which defined the paradigm for the “middle cinema” movement in India. Vijay Tendulkar will give the keynote address.
1-5 p.m., Wednesday, October 6, Martin E. Segal Theatre
Res. Code 4909. Free. $10 suggested donation guarantees a seat; guaranteed seat to CUNY students who RSVP. Call Continuing Education and Public Programs at 1.212.817.8215, or continuinged@gc.cuny.edu.
Celebration: An Evening with Vijay Tendulkar
Join us for an evening celebrating Vijay Tendulkar, a leading contemporary Indian playwright, screen and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator. For the past four decades he has been the most influential dramatist and theatre personality in the Marathi language. Born in Bombay in 1928, he is the author of thirty full-length plays and twenty-three one-act plays, several of which have become classics of modern Indian theatre. The evening will include a reading of excerpts from the upcoming NYC production of Sakharam Binder by The Play Company; short excerpts of his major films; a moderated interview with the playwright; and the presentation of a Lifetime Award by The Indo-American Arts Council.
6:30 p.m., Wednesday, October 6, Martin E. Segal Theatre
Res. Code 4910. Free $10 suggested donation guarantees a seat; guaranteed seat to CUNY students who RSVP. Call Continuing Education and Public Programs at 1.212.817.8215, or continuinged@gc.cuny.edu.