Ghashiram barters his own daughter Gauri to get the post of Kotwal (police chief) of Pune from Nana. So the play continues on to reach the next part of this play. However, he is ill-treated there and is charged with pick-pocketing and imprisoned for the offense. Ghashiram being a Brahmin goes to collect alms at the Peshwa's festival the next day. Ghashiram is working with the Lavani dancer. Nana Phadnavis who is the Diwan (Chief Secretary) of Pune is also corrupt and visits the lavani dancer. Then the Brahmins of Pune introduce themselves and we can see the morally corrupt state of affairs in Pune.
The play begins with an invocation to lord Ganesha. In 1986, the play toured cities in US and Canada.In 1989, the group took the play on a tour of east European countries of Soviet union, East Germany, Hungary, and Yugoslavia. The play was staged at different venues during a tour of Western Europe in 1980. The play initially generated a huge controversy, but has been considered a success in the following years. The first performance of this play was at Bharat Natya Mandir in Pune on 16 December 1972. Tendulkar based his play on a 1863 story by author-historian Moroba Kanhoba who tossed together history and fiction to write Ghashiram Kotwal and saw it as something of a simple morality play.
Ghasiram Kotwal play at Bharat Bhavan Bhopal History Jabbar Patel's production of the play in 1973 is considered a classic in Modern Indian Theatre. It was first performed on 16 December 1972, by the Progressive Dramatic Association in Pune. Its theme is how men in power give rise to ideologies to serve their purposes, and later destroy them when they become useless. It is based on the life of Nana Phadnavis (1741–1800), one of the prominent ministers in the court of the Peshwa of Pune and Ghashiram Kotwal, the police chief of the city. The play is a political satire, written as historical drama. Ghashiram Kotwal is a Marathi play written by playwright Vijay Tendulkar in 1972 as a response to the rise of a local political party, in Maharashtra.
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