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Mahesh Elkunchwar was born on 9 October, 1939 in Parwa, Maharashtra, is an An indian male dramatist and playwright. Discover Mahesh Elkunchwar's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

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Occupation Playwright
Age 84 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 9 October, 1939
Birthday 9 October
Birthplace Parwa, Maharashtra
Nationality India

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1939

Mahesh Elkunchwar (born 9 October 1939) is an Indian playwright and screenplay writer in Marathi language with more than 20 plays to his name, in addition to his theoretical writings, critical works, and his active work in India's Parallel Cinema as actor and screenwriter.

Today along with Vijay Tendulkar, he is credited as one of the most influential and progressive playwrights not just in Marathi theatre, but also in Indian theatre.

1965

That play was a veteran theatre director Vijaya Mehta's production of Vijay Tendulkar's Mee jinkalo mee Haralo (I Won, I Lost) in 1965.

Deeply influenced by the play, he went to watch play again the following day and decided to write plays.

He devoted the next year to reading plays of all kind.

1967

Elkunchwar emerged onto the national theatre scene with the publication of his one-act play Sultan in 1967 in noted literary magazine Satyakatha.

1969

This play was immediately noticed by Vijaya Mehta; she went on to direct four of his early plays, including Holi and Sultan in 1969 and 1970 for Rangayan.

A number of commercial hits followed such as Holi (1969), Raktapushpa (1971), Party (1972), Virasat (1982), and Atamkatha (1987).

Considered a successor to Vijay Tendulkar, Elkunchwar's plays are written in Marathi, the Indian language that is spoken by approximately 90 million people.

The plays have been subsequently translated into multiple Indian and Western languages (including English, French and German).

1984

In 1984, his play Holi was made into the film Holi by Ketan Mehta, for which he wrote the screenplay.

In the same year, Govind Nihalani directed a film, Party, based on his eponymous play.

1999

He taught English literature at Dharampeth Arts, Commerce College, Nagpur and M. P. Deo Memorial Science College, Nagpur, until retiring as its Head in 1999.

2000

He was a guest professor of screen play-writing at the Film and Television Institute, Pune in 2000–2001.

He taught as a visiting professor at the National school of Drama, New Delhi for a number of years.

Elkunchwar has experimented with many forms of dramatic expression, ranging from the realistic to symbolic, expressionist to absurd theatre with theme ranging from creativity to life, sterility to death and has influenced modern Indian theatre for more than three decades.

2008

Collected Plays of Mahesh Elkunchwar Volume I: Oxford University Press 2008

2011

Collected Plays of Mahesh Elkunchwar Volume II : Oxford University Press 2011

2012

His collection of essays 'Maunraag' has broken new grounds in this genre and was considered the book of the decade in 2012.

An uncanny blend of autobiographical and meditative, His essay show his erudition and a vivid imagination.

Other works:

Elkunchwar's plays have gained national and international critical attention, and his growing body of work has become part of India's post-colonial theatrical canon.

Some Important Honours, Awards :

Works in translations :

2014

In 2014, he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, the highest honour in performing arts in India.

Born to a 9th generation Telugu Brahmin migrant family in Parwa village in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, at the age of four he had to leave his parents and leave a city where he grew up a lonely child and hardly interested in studies, and raised outside of Indian urban centres.

As films and theatre were taboo in his family, he saw his first play when he moved to Nagpur for his matriculation.

Here he studied at Morris College, and went on to do M.A. in English from Nagpur University.

While still in college came the turning point in his life, when one day he went to watch a film and unable to get a movie ticket, he ended up watching a play.

2017

Sonata (2017), a film starring Aparna Sen, Shabana Azmi and Lilette Dubey was based on Elkunchwar's eponymous play.

A lesser known fact about him is as Mahesh Elkunchwar, the essayist.