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Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar

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+'''Khandekar, Vishnu Sakharam (1898-1976)'''
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+Influential Marathi writer and essayist born in
+Sangli, Maharashtra. Closely associated with the
+progressive, secular tradition of the reformist
+G.G. Agarkar. A former schoolteacher, his bestknown
+novels (Ulka, 1934; Hirva Chafa, 1938;
+Pandhre Dhag, 1939) are often deliberately
+pedagogical, with characters presented as
+social ‘types’ in situations devised as guides to
+morally correct behaviour. Wrote several
+original scripts, e.g. for Master Vinayak
+(Jwala, 1938; Amrit and Junnarkar’s Sangam,
+both 1941) some of which he later novelised
+(Rikama Devhara based on Devata, 1939;
+Sukhacha Shodh, 1939, etc.). His literary world
+is ‘peopled on the one side by ambitious men
+who have lost their humanity and, on the other,
+by the poor [w]ho suffer but never lose their
+humaneness; poverty is always perceived as a
+social consequence of crippling ambition’
+(Mordekar, Aug 1941). His stories are high
+melodrama full of sacrifices bravely borne,
+passionate revenge and holy sin in
+extraordinarily convoluted plots (Chhaya,
+1936; Mazhe Bal, 1943), exerting a strong
+influence in Marathi cinema, e.g. on Raja
+Paranjpe/G.D. Madgulkar. Based scripts on
+C.V. Joshi’s popular political satires featuring
+the bumbling duo Gundyabhau and Chimanrao: Lagna Pahave Karun (1940) and
+Sarkari Pahune (1942). Scripted C.
+Raghuvir’s Soneri Savli (1953), Madhav
+Shinde’s Antaricha Diva (1960), Mansala
+Pankh Astaat (1961) and Sunbai (1962; also
+providing the lyrics together with Shanta
+Shelke).
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+[[Writer]]