INDUSTRIA JOURNAL

Vijay Tendulkar’s Sakharam Binder is a true depiction of the middle class male who runs his life as Masochist Casanova. In spite of all his attempts to expose the hypocrisy of the institution of marriage he could not uphold the elevating picture of man-woman relationship replete with tender affection and moral bonding. On the contrary he demeans and disgraces the woman to the label of pleasure- object which is to be thrown out when no ember of pleasure is left in it. He debases the man-woman relationship to the position of an emotionless contract such as a “link based on need: the need ended, the link snapped”. Apparently he seems to approbate woman’s right of revolt against male cruelties but in the deep core of his heart there is hidden a brutal man. Sakharam is neither magnanimous nor a protector but a befuddled and cunning guy whose real business is to tangle and exploit the deserted and miserable women just for sexual pleasure. His sexual itch justifies all kind of woman’s physical and mental exploitations. The extent of his hypocrisy is crystal clear when he denies the sanctity of marriage and criticizes husbands but only to befool and snare the deserted woman to satisfy his sexual itch.