lucknow a play giddh was staged at up sna depicting how greed creates a frankenstein in a man that eventually destroys his worldpresented by surya theatre cultural arts society and directed by vivek mishra vishnu the 90minute play written by acclaimed playwright and author vijay tendulkar begins with two brothers who start a construction business which soon brings huge profits but the elder brother played by ritesh shukla becomes greedy and usurps the entire business leaving the younger one in ragshowever the elder brothers two sons ramakant played by rahul mishra and umakant ravindra yadav inherit their fathers greedy character and eliminate everyone in the family to grab the property all this devastates the father and he leaves homethe play was written in marathi and produced for the first time in 1970 since then there have been hundreds of shows across the world it has also been translated in several languages the play established tendulkar as a writer with a unique style of writing