Character sketch of "Ghashiram"

Character sketch of "Ghashiram"

            "Ghashiram kotwal" is written by Vijay Tendulkar in 1972. It is a Marathi play. Vijay Tendulkar is a Marathi writer. He wrote many famous stories in Marathi and 'Ghashiram Kotwal' is a one of his famous story. In this play he present a power of politics and how a man do anything for lust for a power. In this play main and central character is Ghashiram Savaldas.

             Ghashiram is a Kannoj Brahman who come to city of Poona to try his luck and earn his livelyhood. He comes with his wife a young and pretty daughter. He is not an egoist or a proud man. He is not find a good work so, he does a petty work from household chores to [Bhavankhani] to dancing with the women. While working there he comes to contact with Nana and find a favour with him and for his ready with. Nana is pleased and gives him his Necklace. His problem stsrt from there Gulabi the courtesan in whose house. He is working is not ready to let him walk away with the Necklace. but ghashi does not give her and his refusal. She orders her musde men to get Necklace and thrown himout.

         Hungry and without money he comes to the play where the royal favous are being gave on the Brahmins of Poona. he looked around with his hungry eyes, but he doesn't know the ways of poona city. He is held responsible for the pick pocketing and is further insulted, kicked and thrown out by the soldiers. The Brahmins of Poona and the soldiers are insulted him and kicked him. He is very insulted and for that he takes a vow that he will return. One day convert the city of Poona into the kingdom of pigs and will spare none.

              A dramatic transformation occurs him . He realize the lust of Nana for young girls and learns that Nana had fallen for his daughter. He dramatic circumstances promises to get he for having one enjoyed Gauri his daughter. Nana becomes blinds to her but Ghashi steps in bargaining mood. He refuses to allow his daughter to go to him for the fears of social stigma.

              Ghashiram is a changed man now he used his daughter Gauri for getting kotwalship of Poona and he force to Nana to field to him. After that Ghashiram thaught that when one time he gets power of kotwal. He disallowed Gauri to go to Nana and N ana unable to know what Ghashi wants. Ghashiram is blindly madly goes the bad path with take a revenge with Poona's people.

             Ghashiram pours out his revenge on the city of poona by a lot of bloodletting, false cases and threats. He punished people's of Poona very badly because he take revenge. He brings about a life of permit in the city of Poona. The fear of Ghashi is rewarded in the Brahmans began to creating stooped. Here the one situation is take place

             "Gauri orders,

              Nana does,

              Ghashiram rules"  

However Ghashiram fails to understand the true face of Nana. He has totally misunderstood him. He becomes a play in the hand of Nana who has apponting him to the kotwalship of the city. He is totally don't know because he has get a key post and take a revenge with people of Poona. Such a man cannot join the revolt against him with other people in the first place and they will never trust him because he is an outsider. The Poona will be scared even and he could one day come out in open revolt against him Ghashiram take this post by helping with her daughter. But when he go into the marriage of Nana he know that his daughter has been died and he loose her daughter.

                  For the first time after being deputed the kotwal Ghashiram is weeping like a child and removing the dust from the grave to have her glimpse. The animal in him dies and he is overflowerd with emotion. He told chandra of whose hand she died the human in him lives for a short period and he went to Nana's house and asked him why did he do it but Nana told him th eleddon of Bhagwat Geeta on the nature of death. And told that he had a power of kotwalship and nobody gossip about Gauri.

            Deeply suddened by her death and armed with a new weapen, Ghasiram spills blood and butchery over the city of Poona. The people become dry with fear he once again becomes an instrument to play with in the hunds of Nana. When once time Maratha Sardar knows and show that a few Brahmans in the narrow cell and some of them die of saffocation in the narrow cell. The sardar reports the matter of Peshwa and manage to gather crowd. When it comes to him own head, Nana signs the death warrant of Ghashi with as much of ease and in differentce with which he had signed the order to depute him kotwal.

           

  However, he is remorseful for 

spoiling the life of his daughter. He still calls the Brahmans coward who are scared of him even when his hand is tied.

               Like his daughter he is also used and absued by Nana. A question that up is,

     "Does one human being

     have such enormous

     power over the othe?"

 

"Hit me, beat me,

beat me some more hit me"