Pandit satyadev dubey biography
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Satyadev Dubey
Indian actor, director and playwright (1936-2011)
Satyadev Dubey (13 July 1936[1] – 25 December 2011)[2] was an Indian theatre director, actor, playwright, screenwriter & film director. He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1971.[3]
He won the 1978 National Film Award for Best Screenplay for Shyam Benegal's Bhumika and 1980 Filmfare Best Dialogue Award for Junoon. In 2011, he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan bygd the Government of India.
Biography
[edit]Satyadev Dubey was born in Bilaspur now in Chhattisgarh in 1936. He moved to Mumbai with the aim of becoming a cricketer, but ended up joining the Theatre Unit, a theatre group run by Ebrahim Alkazi, which also ran a school for many budding artists. Later when Alkazi left for Delhi to head the National School of Drama, Dubey took over Theatre Unit, and went on to produce many important plays in the Indian theatre.
He produced Girish Karnad's first pl
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Pandit Satyadev Dubey
MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA DECEMBER 28, 2011 02.30 A.M.
I never ever thought that in the last quarter of 2011 I would be writing so many tributes to the departed stalwarts of the field of art , music and literature . I have already written obituary on Bhupen Hazarika , Shammi Kapoor , Dev Anand , Mario Miranda and Christopher Hitchens . Obituary of Jagjit Singh and Steve Jobs are half – written and yet to be posted . And now comes the news of the sad demise of Pandit Satyadev Dubey .
Pandit Satyadev Dubey
On December 25 , 2011 , when the world was celebrating birth of Jesus Christ , an eminent theater personality Pandit Satyadev Dubey bid adieu . Curtain finally came down and stage went empty . A stalwart , who bestrode the theatre world of Mumbai for 5 decades , Pandit Satyadev Dubey finally left the stage at the age of 75 . He was sitting in Prithvi Cafe on September 19 , 2011 , when he slipped into coma a
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Satyadev Dubey transformed Indian theatre – but many forget his maverick film projects
Satyadev Dubey’s death in 2011 robbed Indian theatre of one of its most highly regarded figures. More than a decade later, Dubey is still remembered for his immeasurable contributions as a writer and director of 90-odd plays in fyra languages, the rigorous manner in which he moulded three generations of actors, his incandescence and his eccentricities.
But between his work in the theatre, which started in the 1950s and continued five decades, Dubey also made a foray into cinema. In addition to writing screenplays and dialogue for productions by Shyam Benegal and others, Dubey directed two short films of his own and the full-length feature Shantata! Court Chale Aahe. Months before his death, Dubey was working on a film but was unable to complete it.
The early films suggest that had Dubey paid as much attention to cinema as he had to theatre, he would perhaps have featured in the ranks of India