![]() ![]() ![]() Tendulkar weaves a matrix of intricate interrelationships by introducing Laxmi and Champa, both diametrically different from one another, complicating Sakharam’s beliefs, indicating religious and domesticated tendencies in him when in contact with Laxmi, eventually turning her out of his house and bringing in Champa, undergoing a psychological turmoil resulting in his temporary impotence and finally murdering Champa in a fit of anger and frustration. Sakharam does not believe in the institution of marriage and arranges contractual cohabitation based on convenience with single women who have been deserted by their husbands or have walked out on them. The openness of his personality becomes in itself a critique of the hypocrisy of the middle class. Sakharam, though apparently crude, aggressive and violent, has his own laws of personal morality and honesty. The play revolves around the central character Sakharam, a book- binder, who though a Brahmin, is the antithesis of the general idealized conception of a member of that caste. Sakharam Binder (1972) is the modern Marathi playwright Vijay Tendulkar’s most intensely naturalistic play. ![]()
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