Ayi Tendulkar

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Ayi Tendulkar
Born
Ayi Ganpat Tendulkar

(1904-01-01)1 January 1904
Belgundi, India
Died1 January 1975(1975-01-01) (aged 71)
India
OccupationFilmmaker, actor, author
Years active1933–1954
Spouse(s)Sasha Alexandra Passini (1924–19??)
Eva Gräfin Finck von Finckenstein (19??-19??)
Thea von Harbou (c.1933–19??)
Indumati Gunaji (19??-19??)

Ayi Ganpat Tendulkar (1904–1975) was an Indian screenwriter, journalist and actor. He is especially known as the husband of Thea von Harbou, the writer of the science fiction film classic Metropolis.

Education and marriages[edit]

Tendulkar received the Toppiwala scholarship which allowed him to gain admission into a British university, but he was not quite ready to begin his studies. As a result, he decided to study French at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris.[1]

Tendulkar's first wife was Sasha Alexandra Passini, a Russian whom he met in Paris in 1924. After they separated, Passini married an Italian man.[2]

Tendulkar then married German actress Eva Schubring, the daughter of one of his professors. Their marriage ended once Tendulkar began a romantic relationship with filmmaker Thea von Harbou, who was married to Fritz Lang. Their relationship was part of the motivation for von Harbou's divorce from Lang.[3]

Tendulkar's fourth wife was Indumati Gunaji. They met in India, when both were involved in Gandhi's campaign against British rule. Their daughter, Laxmi Tendulkar Dhaul, wrote a book about her parents and von Harbou.[4]

References[edit]

  1. Padgaonkar, Dileep. "The singular destiny of Ayi Tendulkar". The Times of India. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  2. BHANDARI, PRAKASH. "In The Shadow of Freedom". The Free Press Journal. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  3. Tendulkar Dhaul, Laxmi (2014). In the Shadow of Freedom: Three Lives in Hitler's Berlin and Gandhi's India (1st ed.). Zubaan. ISBN 9383074272.
  4. BHANDARI, PRAKASH. "In The Shadow of Freedom". The Free Press Journal. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
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