![]() To save his skin Nana finally gives orders for execution of Ghashiram. Nana ignores his summons, the Brahmins then surround his palace protest. The Peshwa summons Nana who orders Ghashiram to be killed in the most inhumane way possible. The Brahmin of Pune then complains to the Peshwa. The situation goes out of hand when a few brahmins visitors to the city are put in jail, and die from suffocation due to inadequate ventilation in their custody. He convinces Ghashiram that the title he enjoys is only because of his patronage. Nana asks her body thrown in the river in secret. In the meantime, Gauri becomes pregnant by Nana and dies during childbirth. When the commoners come to Nana with a complaint, he dismisses them & is deeply indulged with Gauri. He starts asking for permits for everything and starts throwing people in jail for the smallest offenses. Having got the post he begins to enforce strict rules in the city. Ghashiram barters his own daughter Gauri to get the post of Kotwal (police chief) of Pune from Nana. So the play continues on to reach the next part of this play. However, he is ill-treated there and is charged with pick-pocketing and imprisoned for the offense. Ghashiram being a Brahmin goes to collect alms at the Peshwa's festival the next day. Ghashiram is working with the Lavani dancer. ![]() Nana Phadnavis who is the Diwan (Chief Secretary) of Pune is also corrupt and visits the lavani dancer. Then the Brahmins of Pune introduce themselves and we can see the morally corrupt state of affairs in Pune. ![]() The play begins with an invocation to lord Ganesha. In 1986, the play toured cities in US and Canada.In 1989, the group took the play on a tour of east European countries of Soviet union, East Germany, Hungary, and Yugoslavia. The play was staged at different venues during a tour of Western Europe in 1980. The play initially generated a huge controversy, but has been considered a success in the following years. The first performance of this play was at Bharat Natya Mandir in Pune on 16 December 1972. Tendulkar based his play on a 1863 story by author-historian Moroba Kanhoba who tossed together history and fiction to write Ghashiram Kotwal and saw it as something of a simple morality play. ![]()
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