Acclaimed playwright Vijay Tendulkar’s path breaking play Sakharam Binder has been performed by various theatre groups in diverse languages across India. The story about Sakharam, a book binder who abuses women sexually and emotionally in post colonial India and claims to give them freedom, has caught the fancy of even foreign theatre groups and directors. The piece has been staged Off-Broadway, as the closing play at the month-long Tendulkar Festival in New York and also by a Northern California-based theatre group.

Sakharam Binder which was first written by Tendulkar in 1972, is now premiering in English in Mumbai.