Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Gajanan Digambar Madgulkar

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Jun 25, 2012, 5:10:37 PM (12 years ago)

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+'''Gajanan Digambar Madgulkar 1919-77)'''
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+Marathi scenarist, songwriter, actor and poet.
+First film as lyric writer: Bedekar’s Pahila
+Palna (1942), which was also his acting début.
+Achieved prominence in the 50s via his
+popular film songs on the radio and on discs
+which, following the spread of playback,
+evolved the bhava geet: orchestrated songs of
+about three minutes duration using simple
+emotive lyrics. His texts were mainly sung and
+orchestrated by Sudhir Phadke, their Geet
+Ramayan record series of 1957 remaining very
+popular with the Marathi middle class and a
+precursor of the 70s bhajan craze. Often wrote
+for Raja Paranjpe (Jivacha Sakha, 1948;
+Pudhcha Paool, 1950; Lakhachi Goshta
+and Pedgaonche Shahane, both 1952; Oon
+Paoos, 1954; Ganget Ghoda Nhala, 1955;
+Andhala Magto Ek Dola and Deoghar, both
+1956; Pathlaag, 1964). This work dominated
+the Marathi cinema in the 50s and 60s and is
+associated with the shift, on the formation of
+the state of Maharashtra, to a concern with
+Marathi identity accompanied by the creation
+of industrial infrastructures (and audiences)
+based on regional capital. First script,
+Shantaram’s Lokshahir Ramjoshi/
+Matwala Shayar Ramjoshi (1947; also act),
+launched the gramin chitrapat genre of ‘rural’
+film typically using dialect, located in a village
+and telling of a power struggle between a good
+peasant lad and an evil sarpanch (village
+elder). Also wrote scripts for Dinkar D. Patil,
+the best-known Marathi director in the genre
+(Baap Mazha Brahmachari and Prem
+Andhala Asta, both 1962). However, where
+Patil used the genre as an indigenous version
+of the western, Madgulkar’s scripts conveyed a
+sense of political awareness in line with e.g.
+Vyankatesh Madgulkar’s stories about rural
+characters. Wrote prose melodramas, e.g. for
+Dharmadhikari (e.g. Bala Jo Jo Re, 1951;
+Stree Janma Hi Tujhi Kahani, 1952). Also
+adapted mythologicals and historicals to the
+studios’ industrial requirements (e.g. Maya
+Bazaar, 1949; Shri Krishna Darshan, 1950;
+Narveer Tanaji, 1952). Acted in e.g.
+Pedgaonche Shahane, Jeet Kiski (both 1952),
+Banwasi, Adalat (both 1948).
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+[[Writer]]
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+[[Actor]]