Uttam Bandu Tupe

Uttam Tupe (28 December 1932 – 26 April 2020) was a writer and poet from Pune, India. He wrote several hundred short stories and 16 novels. One of his books was made into a successful play, and another into a feature film. Tupe also wrote about the social ills of the caste system and issues with Devadasi.

Early life

Tupe wrote a series of novels with a Devadasi theme that were released into the Marathi literary scene in the 1980s.

Works Katyavaraci pota – Mehata Pablisinga Hausa; 3. avrtti edition (2001) Jhulava (झुलवा) Katyavaraci pota – 2001 Kalasi – 1988 Andana – 1986 Jhavala – Publisher: Mehata Pablisinga Hausa; Prathamavrtti edition (1991) Zulwa – 1986, 2005 Zulwa – The book Zulwa was adapted into a play by Chetan Datar for Marathi theatre. The play was an adaptation of the novel by Uttam Bandu Tupe who spent two years in a colony of jogtis to research the novel.

Reception Other authors have called Tupe a "noted subservient writer". all "are harmful in the sense that they depict life artificially and deliberately and mislead life." dowry murders, and the problems of unemployed youth and migrants.