Vijay Tendulkar has given me a reason to be in the world of theatre. It was only after I started watching and reading his plays, that I got motivated to take up the art form,” shares Malad-based Pritesh Sodha, who runs the theatre company Utopia Comm’unique’ations. And born out of this love and respect for the theatre icon is Te Diwas — an evening to remember the Padma Bhushan playwright — which Sodha and his colleague, Sameer Garud, have been organising for the past decade on his death anniversary.

Vijay Tendulkar