But at the same time, he hasn’t forgotten the laddus writer’s mother once gave him, or his english teacher who was the only one who met him in jail. Also, you have Babdu, who is the dada of his class in school, goes to jail on false charges, and comes back in writer’s life for a day as a successful smuggler.
On top of that, he drinks, has some other ahem… unsavory pursuits and is completely unaware that anything he does is wrong. And when the writer gives him the message, “Be loyal to literature” along with his signature, he is so faithful to literature that he refuses to marry.Īnd on the other hand, you have Namu Parit (parit = washerman), who has all the characteristics of successful laundryman: he breaks buttons, steals clothes from his clients (not steal, he wears them in front of same clients) and never gets the clothes back on time. He is the shy school boy who eats books as often as he breathes, speaks in Perfect Marathi (which is something beyond even written marathi, think about using words you read in your friends GRE books in normal conversation). But they don’t have to do anything to get their roles when their time arrives, and they have all the qualities (even slight arrogance) when it comes to finish their work.Īnd then, you have Sakharam Gatne (one of the most famous sketches in the book). He doesn’t differentiate between an organization which is in birth control and one which helps families arrange funerals.Īll these people are nothing if seen outside their “expertise”, are extremely poor to boot.
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Will get it for you once I am free from this marriage stuff.” In the same mold is Bapu Kane, who is born to be a secretary of every organization he sees. You can recognize this person easily, as he is the one who will come to invite you to his marriage and tell you while leaving, “I saw some good rice in the market. He is the person who is nothing in normal life, but he is The Person who ensures almost single-handedly that any marriage preparation he is part of will go without any incident, while remaining completely in the background.Īnd you have Gampu, who is known as Paropakari Gampu (Philanthropist Gampu), born to help others. So, you meet Narayan, a complete nonentity, but who is the omniscient, omnipresent being in the marriage hall. They all form some part of tragedy of life, and when they try to fight their lives, that’s what causes the idiosyncrasies which are the root of the comedy in their life. But almost all of them have one thing in common. The characters come from various backgrounds, are diverse in their traits. And I think that’s why PuLa is so popular even today.
“ Vyakti ani Valli” consists of twenty character sketches of fictional characters written from around 1944 to 1968, but we can see those character traits even in people we meet today after so many years. These books, along with his other comedy stories are so engraved on marathi psyche, that just the mention of the names of characters is enough to invoke laughter. Deshpande (when asked about characters in Vyakti ani Valli)Īlmost any marathi person’s introduction to PuLa is reading “ Vyakti ani Valli”, “ Batatyachi Chaal” or “ Asa Me Asa Me”.
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