G. D. Madgulkar - Misplaced Pages

Marathi poet, lyricist, writer and actor

This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Misplaced Pages's quality standards. You can help. The talk page may contain suggestions. (September 2016)

G. D. Mādgulkar
Ga Di Mādguḷkar
Born	(1919-10-01)1 October 1919 Shetphale in Ātpādi taluka in Sāngli district, India His village is Mādguḷe in Ātpādi
Died	14 December 1977(1977-12-14) (aged 58)
Pen name	(GaDiMā)
Occupation	Poet, lyricist, playwright, script writer, dialog writer, actor, and orator
Nationality	Indian
Genre	Marāthi
Literary movement	Marāthi
Notable works	गीतरामायण (Geet Rāmāyana)
Website
gadima.com

Gajānan Digambar Mādguḷkar (1 October 1919 – 14 December 1977) was a Marāthi poet, lyricist, writer and actor from India. He is popularly known in his home state of Mahārāshtra by just his initials as Ga Di Mā. He was awarded Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1951 and Padma Shri in 1969. He has written 157 screen plays and over 2000 songs in his career. He was called Ādhunik Valmiki (the modern Valmiki) of current era due to his composition of Geet Rāmāyan (lit. Ramayana in Songs) as the most notable work. 2019 is celebrated as his Birth Century year. Government of Maharashtra hosts various events and festivals to grace the occasion.

Career

Madgulkar wrote poetry, short stories, novels, autobiographies and scripts, dialogues and lyrics for Marathi as well as Hindi movies. His poems have been adapted to a wide range of musical forms such as Sugam-Sangeet (light music), Bhāwa-Geet (emotional songs), Bhakti-Geet (devotional songs), and Lāwani (a genre of folk songs in Maharashtra). Madgulkar entered the world of movies in 1938 at Kolhāpur. He contributed to 157 Marathi and 23 Hindi movies. He was also an artist. He loved to draw nature scenes.

He had knowledge of 10 languages including Marathi, Hindi, English, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu.

He was the elder brother of Marathi writer of poetry and novels Vyankatesh Madgulkar.

Works

Collections of poems

Sugandhi Veena
Jogiya
Char sangitika
Geet Ramayan
Kavykatha
Chaitraban
Geetgopal
Geetsaubhadra
Vaishakhi
Pooriya
Ajun Gagima
Naach re mora

Collection of short stories

Laplele ogh
Bandhavarchya babhali
Krushnachi karangali
Bolka shankh
Veg ani itar katha
Thorli pati
Tupacha nandadeep
Chandani udbatti
Bhatache phool
Sone ani mati
Teen chitrakatha
Kalavantanche anand paryatan
Teel ani tandul

Autobiographies

Vatevarlya savlya
Mantarlele diwas

Novels

De tali ga ghe tali
Mini
Shashank manjiri
Naach re mora
Tulsi ramayan
Shabdranjan
Aakashachi phale
Ubhe dhage aadve dhage

Plays

Aakashachi phale
Parachakra

Monthly magazines

Akshar
Dharti

Geet Ramayan

Main article: Geet Ramayan

Geet Rāmāyan (lit. Ramayana in Songs) is considered his most notable work. A lyrical version of the Valmiki Ramayana in Marathi, it consists of 56 songs chronologically describing events from Ramayana. Sudhir Phadke composed the music for Geet Ramayan. Though it is based on sage Valmiki's epic Ramayana, Madgulkar chose a different narrative format and was praised for the lyrics, and was called Ādhunik Valmiki (the modern Valmiki).

Screenwriting

जीवनज्योती Jeewan Jyoti 1953: Screenplay and Dialogs
तूफान और दीया Toofān Aur Deeyā 1956: Story
दो आंखे बारह हाथ Do Ānkhen Bārah Hāth 1957: Story, Screenplay, and Dialogs - the movie won recognition at Berlin International Film Festival.

Popular Songs

The following is a short list of some of the popular Marathi songs which "गदिमा" wrote:

इंद्रायणीकाठी देवाची आळंदी (Indrāyani Kāthi Dewāchi Ālandi)
उद्धवा, अजब तुझे सरकार (Uddhawā, Ajab Tujhze Sarkār)
तुझ्या उसाला लागल कोल्हा (Tujhyā Usaālā Lāgel Kolhā)
या चिमण्यानो, परत फिरा रे (Yā Chimanyāno, Parat Phirā Re)
हे काम ने तडीला, हाजी मलंग बाबा (He Kām Ne Tadilā, Hāji Malang Bābā)
विठ्ठला,तू वेडा कुंभार (Viththalā, Tu Wedā Kumbhār)

Acting

Year	Movie	Language	Director	Co-Actors
1938	ब्रह्मचारी (Brahmachari)	Marathi	Master Vinayak	Master Vinayak, Meenakshi Shirodkar, V.G. Jog, Salvi, Damuanna Malvankar, Javdekar, Vasant Eric
1942	पहिला पाळणा (Pahilā Pālnā)	Marathi	Vishrām Bedekar	Shanta Hublikar, Indu Natu, Baburao Pendharkar, Balabhai, Kusum Deshpande, Dinkar Kamanna, Vishnupant Aundhkar
1947	लोकशाहीर रामजोशी (Lokshāhir Rāmjoshi) (Marathi)/ MatwālāShayar Rāmjoshi (Hindi)	Marathi/Hindi	Bāburāo Painter (Marathi Version)	Jayaram Shiledar, Hansa Wadkar, Shakuntala, Parashuram, Sudha Apte, Samant, Gundopant Walawalkar, Jayaram Desai, Kanase, Sawalaram, Vaidya, Abhyankar
1948	बनवासी (Banawāsi)	Hindi	Kumār Chandrasekhar
1948	अदालत (Adālat)	Hindi	Vasant Joglekar
1950	पुढचं पाऊल (Pudhche Pāool)	Marathi	Rājā Parānjpe	P.L. Deshpande, Hansa Wadkar, Kusum Deshpande, Vivek, Mohammed Hussain, D. S. Ambapkar, Bal Chitale, Raja Paranjpe, Shakuntala Jadhav, Suman, Ravindra, Baby Neela
1952	लाखाची गोष्ट (Lākhāchi Goshta)	Marathi	Rājā Parānjpe	Chitra, Rekha, Raja Gosavi, Indira Chitnis, Ravindra, Sharad Talwalkar, Raja Paranjpe, Madan Mohan
1952	पेडगावचे शहाणे (Pedagāwache Shahāne)	Marathi	Rājā Parānjpe	Raja Paranjpe, Chittaranjan Kolhatkar, Dhumal, Master Dwarkanath, Vasant Shinde, Nalini Nagpurkar, Nayana, Prasad Sawkar, Sadashiv Thakar, Ganpatrao Kelkar, Daldaseth
1952	जीत (Jeet Kiskee)	Hindi	Vasant Joglekar
1953	अंमलदार (Ammaladār)	Marathi	K. Nārāyan Kāle	P. L. Deshpande, K. Narayan Kale, Sheila Naik, Leela Ogale, Vinay Kale (Music Composer: G. D. Madgulkar)
1960	जगाच्या पाठीवर (Jagāchyā Pāthiwar)	Marathi	Rājā Parānjpe	Ramesh Deo, Seema Deo, Dhumal, Raja Paranjpe, Mai Bhide, Vinay Kale, Raja Gosavi, Sharad Talwalkar, Raj Dutt, Sudhir Phadke, Anna Joshi

Awards and recognitions

Sangeet Natak Akademi Award – 1951
Padma Shri – 1969
Vishnudas Bhave gold medal -1971

Personal life

Madgulkar was born in a Deshastha Brahmin family. He was married to Vidya (née Patankar, from Kolhapur) and they had 3 sons (Shridhar, Anand, Sharatkumar) and 4 daughters (Varsha, Kalpalata, Deepa, Shubhada). The popular Marathi writer, Vyankatesh Madgulkar was his younger brother.

His home in Pune ('Panchavati Bungalow') has become a place of attraction for his fans.

References

"Sangeet Natak Akademi Puraskar (Akademi Awards)". National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama. Archived from the original on 31 March 2016. Gajanan D. Madgulkar 1951
"Padma Awards Directory (1954–2013)" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. 1969: 60: Shri Gajanan Digambar Madgulkar
Gaadima
"गदिमांचे आत्मचरित्र इंग्रजीत". Loksatta (in Marathi). 6 December 2020. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
"Geet Ramayan gathers dust at AIR". Indian Express. Archived from the original on 17 December 2013. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
गायकवाड, प्रफुल्ल (1 October 2016). "'आधुनिक वाल्मिकी' अर्थात ग.दि.माडगूळकर जयंती". Lokmat (in Marathi). Retrieved 22 September 2022.
"Berlin Film Festival: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 30 August 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
The Illustrated Weekly of India, Volume 95. Bennett, Coleman & Company, Limited, at the Times of India Press. 1974. p. 31. ARATHI literature is strewn with the names of Deshastha writers.The popular classical and light musician, DrVasantrao Deshpande, also from this community. Other schools of music are well represented by such veterans as Pandit Narayanrao Vyas, Meera Khirwadkar, Gururao Deshpande and musicologist Vamanrao Deshpande G. V. Bhonde, popularly known as " Nakalakar", gave mimicry the status of an art in Maharashtra. Famous actor and director Gajanan Jagirdar, Prabhakar Panshikar, magician Raghuvir Bhople all belong to this community.
Madgulkar, Vidya (14 December 1996). Akashashi Jadale Nate (आकाशाशी जडले नाते) (Paperback) (in Marathi) (1 ed.). Pune: Utkarsh Prakashan. ISBN 9788174253033. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
LAKADE, AADITI JATHAR (2011). "marathi-writer-madgulkar-s-panchavati-still-a-draw". No. May 31, 2011. Indian Express newspapers. Retrieved 6 March 2018.

External links

Marathi Songs Of Ga Di Madgulkar – The Official Gadima Website
Gadima On Facebook – The Official Gadima Facebook Page

Categories: