Jaywant Dalvi

Jaywant Dalvi ( 14 August 1925 – 16 September 1994) was a prominent contemporary Marathi writer in Maharashtra, India, originally from Arawali (Dist.Sindhudurg, Tal. Vengurle) in Maharashtra.

He worked as an assistant editor at Marathi newspapers Prabhāt and Lokmānya, and later with USIS. As part of USIS efforts to make good English literature available in other languages, Dalvi selected texts and able translators, and helped the cause. He took an early retirement to concentrate on writing novels.

He is best remembered for his dramas, and a humorous column on Marathi literary personalities which he wrote under the pseudonym: ThanthanpaaL. Jaywant Dalvi had a long time friendly relations with noted Marathi literary couple Pu La Deshpande and Sunita Deshpande.

Dalvi wrote fiction, plays, and screenplays for Marathi and Hindi movies. Cartoonist Vasant Sarwate often illustrated Dalvi's satiric writings.

KAVADASE - (2005)

The plot of this movie is based on his novel kavadase. It is about a lower-middle-class family`s struggle for survival, the period is in late fifties. And tragic tale of its protagonist Janardan. This movie has got many nominations, and amruta subhas got best actress award for `zee gaurav` and `screen award`. The cast : Dilip Prabhavalkar, Neena kulkari, Subodh Bhave, Amruta Subhash and Makrand A Naspure in a remarkable role. This film was directed by Raju Firke. Great literary Vijay Tendulakr has praised Mr. Prabhavalkar's role in this movie as the best work seen from Dilip Prabhavalkar.

Dalvi did his pre-college studies at Chikitsak Samuha Shirolkar High School in Mumbai.

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