Ghashiram Kotwal

Genre: Play particularly TAMASHA.

Author: Vijay Tendulkar

Date of publication: 1972

Time: 1741-1800

Place: Maharashtra, India.

Plot: It is all about a mediocre person Ghashiram Kotwal. Once he gets insulted and then he decides to do something so that he does not have to get humiliated. He visits a person who was in power position and creates an impression in front of him. So he gets appointed for “Kotwali”. It is a good post to give orders to people. But he had to pay the price for this. He almost sold his own daughter for this. Nana Phadanvis, who get Ghashiram a job, was politician. He was already having lot wives as well as affairs. He asks for daughter – lakshmi. He kept lakshmi with him. And by the time lakshmi got pregnant. But he does not reveal her. And finally lakshmi dies.

Characters: Ghashiram Kotwal,

Nana Phadanvis,

Lakshmi,

Chorus

Theme: power politics, class division, failure of system.