Appasaheb belvalkar biography of michaels

Vi. Va. Shirwadkar the playwright, who wrote poetry under the nom de plume Kusumagraj, was a keen student of world literature, especially of poetry and drama.

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His study of world theatre took him to Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Jean Anouilh, Maurice Maeterlink, Tolstoy. This resulted in some brilliant translations and adaptations into Marathi.

His play NATASAMRAT made history on the Marathi stage.

This play is broadly based on Shakespeare's great tragedy KING LEAR. The main role of the thespian Appasaheb Belvalkar was made immortal by Dr Shreeram Lagoo.

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Other Marathi actors of the calibre of Datta Bhat, Arvind Deshpande, Yashwant Dutta also played this role with success. The play has now been made into a DVD with Dr Lagoo in the lead-probably his last role!

This play was first produced around 1970.

His direct adaptations of two other tragedies-MACBETH (as RAJMUKUT) and OTHELLO-were done in 1954 and 1960 respectively. But Shirwadkar 'met' Shakespeare muc