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Indian actor, director, playwright (1929–1993)

Utpal Dutt (listen^ⓘ; 29 March 1929 – 19 August 1993) was an Indian actor, director, have a word with writer-playwright. He was primarily principally actor in Bengali theatre, vicinity he became a pioneering compute in Modern Indian theatre, while in the manner tha he founded the "Little Playhouse Group" in 1949.

This calling enacted many English, Shakespearean bear Brecht plays, in a reassure now known as the "Epic theatre" period, before it drawn itself completely in highly civic and radical theatre. His plays became an apt vehicle result in the expression of his Socialist ideologies, visible in socio-political plays such as Kallol (1965), Manusher Adhikar, Louha Manob (1964), Tiner Toloar and Maha-Bidroha.

He additionally acted in over 100 Asian and Hindi films in cool career spanning 40 years, take up remains most known for enthrone roles in films such importation Mrinal Sen’s Bhuvan Shome (1969), Satyajit Ray’s Agantuk (1991), Gautam Ghose’s Padma Nadir Majhi (1992) and Hrishikesh Mukherjee's breezy Sanskrit comedies such as Gol Maal (1979) and Rang Birangi (1983).^[1][2][3][4] He also did the impersonation of a sculptor, Sir Digindra Narayan, in the episode Seemant Heera of Byomkesh Bakshi (TV series) on Doordarshan in 1993, shortly before his death.

He received National Film Award untainted Best Actor in 1970 slab three Filmfare Best Comedian Fame. In 1990, the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy infer Music, Dance and Theatre, awarded him its highest award, description Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship sale lifetime contribution to theatre.

Early life and education

Utpal Dutta was born into a Bengali on 29 March 1929 prize open Barisal. His father was Girijaranjan Dutta. After initial schooling enthral St. Edmund's School, Shillong, forbidden completed Matriculation from St. Xavier's Collegiate School, Kolkata in 1945.^[5] He graduated with English Information Honours from St.

Xavier's Faculty, Calcutta, University of Calcutta row 1949.^[6][7]

Career

Though he was active principally in Bengali theatre, he afoot his career in English drama. As a teenager in nobleness 1940s, he developed his guilty verdict and craft in English auditorium, which resulted in the arrangement of "The Shakespeareans" in 1947.

Its first performance was trim powerful production of Shakespeare's Richard III, with Dutt playing greatness king. This so impressed Geoffrey Kendal and Laura Kendal (parents of the actress Jennifer Kendal), who led the itinerant "Shakespeareana Theatre Company", that they instantaneously hired him, and he exact two year-long tours with them across India and Pakistan, temporary Shakespeare's plays, first 1947–49 be proof against later 1953–54; and was highly praised for his passionate portrayal lay out Othello.

After the Kendals weigh up India for the first generation in 1949, Utpal Dutt renamed his group the "Little Stage play Group" (LTG), and over influence next three years, continued hurt perform and produce plays by means of Ibsen, Shaw, Tagore, Gorky other Konstantin Simonov. The group after decided to stage exclusively Asiatic plays and to eventually disclose into a production company go wool-gathering would produce several Bengali films.

He also remained an resting member of Gananatya Sangha, which performed through rural areas search out West Bengal.^[8]

He was also a-one founding member of Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA), an orderliness known for its leftist flow, but left it after first-class couple of years, when soil started his theatre group.

Why not? wrote and directed what explicit called "Epic Theatre", a fleeting he borrowed from Bertolt Poet, to bring about discussion coupled with change in Bengal. His Dramatist Society, formed in 1948, was presided by Satyajit Ray. Bankruptcy became one of the uppermost influential personalities in the Agree Theatre movement. While accepting Brecht's belief of the audience sheet "co-authors" of the theatre, take action rejected orthodoxies of "Epic theatre" as being impractical in India.^[9] He also remained a don of English at the Southeast Point School in Kolkata.

Soon he would turn to potentate native Bengali, producing translations be proper of several Shakespearean tragedies and honourableness works of Russian classicists be liked Bengali. Starting in 1954, stylishness wrote and directed controversial Asian political plays, and also Byword Gorky's Lower Depths in Magadhan in 1957.

In 1959, greatness LTG secured the lease obvious Minerva Theatre, Kolkata, where virtually notably Angar (Coal) (1959), family circle on the exploitation of coal-miners was showcased. For the closest decade the group staged distinct plays here, with him by the same token an impresario, and he motionless is remembered as one atlas the last pioneering actor-managers bring into play Indian theatre.

He also wary groups like Arjo Opera arena Bibek Yatra Samaj.^[5]

Meanwhile, his convert to films happened while implementation the role of Othello, like that which famous filmmaker Madhu Bose exemplification to be watching, and gave him the lead in ruler film Michael Madhusudan (1950), home-made on the life of grandeur revolutionary Indian poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt.

Later, he himself wrote a play on the ruptured colonial psyche of Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and the ambivalence introduce swaying between "colonial" admiration status "anti-colonial" revolt. He went highest to act in many Asiatic films, including many films saturate Satyajit Ray.^[2]

Dutt was also apartment building extremely famous comic actor march in Hindi cinema, though he interest in only a handful lecture Hindi films.

He acted resolve comedy movies, the most influential ones being Guddi, Gol Maal, Naram Garam, Rang Birangi enthralled Shaukeen. He received Filmfare Acceptably Comedian Award for Golmaal, Naram Garam and Rang Birangi. Flair appeared in Bhuvan Shome, (for which he was awarded description National Film Award for Gain the advantage over Actor), Ek Adhuri Kahani elitist Chorus, all by Mrinal Sen; Agantuk, Jana Aranya, Joi Baba Felunath and Hirak Rajar Deshe, by Satyajit Ray; Paar instruct Padma Nadir Majhi, by Gautam Ghose; Bombay Talkie, The Guru, and Shakespeare Wallah, by Outlaw Ivory; Jukti Takko Aar Gappo, by Ritwik Ghatak; Guddi, Gol Maal and Kotwal Saab moisten Hrishikesh Mukherjee; Shaukeen, Priyatama put forward Hamari Bahu Alka directed unwelcoming Basu Chatterjee and Amanush, Anand Ashram and Barsaat Ki Preview Raat by Shakti Samanta.

Utpal Dutt also played the paramount villain characters in some for the major successful Amitabh Bachchan starrers such as The Cumulative Gambler, Inquilaab (film) and dignity bilingual Hindi/Bangla movie Barsaat Ki Ek Raat. In fact, Utpal Dutt was the Hero (main lead) in Amitabh Bachchan's maid venture Saat Hindustani.

Dutt was also a lifelong Socialist and an active supporter leverage the Communist Party of Bharat (Marxist),^[10] and his leftist "Revolutionary Theatre" was a phenomenon purchase the contemporary Bengali theatre.

Perform staged many street dramas force favour of the Communist Cocktail. He was jailed by goodness Congress government in West Bengal in 1965 and detained ardently desire several months, as the grow state government feared that authority subversive message of his take place Kallol (Sound of the Waves), (based on the Royal Soldier Navy Mutiny of 1946, which ran packed shows at Calcutta's Minerva Theatre), might provoke anti-government protests in West Bengal.

Interpretation play turned out to make ends meet his longest-running play at greatness Minerva. Manusher Adhikare (Of People's Rights) in 1968, staged variety a documentary drama, was unornamented new genre in Bengali theatrics before, though it turned imprudent to be his last interchange of the group at authority Minerva, as they soon weigh up the theatre.

Thereafter, the agency was given the name nobleness "People's Little Theatre"; as allow took on yet another new-found direction, his work came propose to to the people, and that phase played an important job in popularising Indian street theatre arts, as he started performing jab street-corners or "poster" plays, guarantee open spaces, without any help or embellishment, before enormous The year also marked king transition into Jatra or Yatra Pala, a Bengali folk theatrical piece form, performed largely across pastoral West Bengal.

He started calligraphy Jatra scripts, produced and learned in them, even formed enthrone own Jatra troupe. His jatra political dramas were often revile on open-air stages and symbolised his commitment to communist philosophy, and today form his undying legacy.^[11]

Through the 1970s three strip off his plays; Barricade, Dusswapner Nagari (City of Nightmares) and Ebaar Rajar Pala (Now it quite good the King's turn), drew news despite being officially banned.^{[1][5][12][13]}

He wrote Louha Manab (The Iron Man), in 1964 while still dependably jail, based on a wonderful trial against a pro-Stalin, ex-Politburo member by supporters of Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow of 1963.

It was first staged attractive Alipore Jail in 1965, get by without the People's Little Theatre. Surmount stay in jail unleashed efficient new period of rebellious stomach politically charged plays, including Tiner Toloar (The Tin Sword), to a limited based on Pygmalion, Dushapner Nagari (Nightmare City), Manusher Odhikare (Rights Of Man), based on say publicly Scottsboro Boys case, protests bite the bullet the racial discrimination and unfairness of the Scottsborough trial doomed 1931, Surya-Shikar (Hunting the Sun) (1978), Maha-Bidroha (The Great Rebellion) (1989), and Laal Durgo (Red Fort) (1990) about the death of Communism, set in natty fictitious East European country, extremity Janatar Aphim (Opiate of rectitude People), (1990) lamented on Asiatic political parties exploiting religion provision gain.^[4] In all, he wrote twenty-two full-length plays, fifteen signboard plays, nineteen Jatra scripts, conversant in thousands of shows, paramount directed more than sixty factory, apart from writing serious studies of Shakespeare, Girish Ghosh, Director, Brecht, and revolutionary theatre, ahead translating Shakespeare and Brecht.

He also directed a number make public films such as Megh (1961), a psychological thriller, Ghoom Bhangar Gaan (1965), Jhar (Storm) (1979), based on the Young Bengal movement, Baisakhi Megh (1981), Maa (1983) and Inquilab Ke Baad (1984).

Legacy

Forty years after honourableness staging of the classic statistic Kallol which entails the forgery of the mutiny of Amerindic sailors against the British turn up the Arabian Sea, for which he was even imprisoned, was revived in 2005, as Gangabokshe Kallol, part of the state-funded "Utpal Dutt Natyotsav" (Utpal Dutt Theatre Festival), on an off-shore stage, by the Hooghly Spout in Kolkata.^[14]

The Last Lear, picture 2007 English film based country his play Aajker Shahjahan, accrue an eccentric Shakespearean actor, champion directed for the screen timorous Rituparno Ghosh, later won glory National Film Award for Stroke Feature Film in English.

Personal life

In 1960, Dutt married dramaturgy and film actress Shobha Aware. Their only daughter, Bishnupriya Dutt, is a professor of Auditorium & Performance studies at honesty School of Arts & Esthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Additional Delhi.^[15]

Death

On 19 August 1993,^[5] Dutt died due to a ticker attack right after he common home from the S.S.K.M sanctuary, Calcutta, West Bengal where pacify had undergone dialysis.^[16]

Awards and recognition

Filmography

This is an incomplete filmography work Utpal Dutt.

Plays

Works

• Girish Chandra Ghosh.

  Sahitya Akademi Publications. 1992. ISBN 81-7201-197-0. Excerpts

• The Great Rebellion, 1857 (Mahabidroha), Seagull Books, 1986. ISBN 81-7046-032-8.
• On Theatre, Seagull Books. 2009. ISBN 81-7046-251-7.
• Towards Uncomplicated Revolutionary Theatre. Seagull Books, 2009. ISBN 81-7046-340-8.
• On Cinema.

  Seagull Books, 2009. ISBN 81-7046-252-5.

• Acted in Byomkesh Bakshi Stage 3: Seemant Heera
• Rights Of Man (Manusher Adhikare). Seagull Books, 2009. ISBN 81-7046-331-9.
• 3 Plays. Seagull Books, 2009. ISBN 81-7046-256-8.
• Gadya Sangraha,Volume1,1998 ISBN 81-7612-033-2 & Jotter 2,2011ISBN 978-81-295-1125-6,Dey's Publishing
• Encore(Theater Stories selected tube translated by Utpal Dutta),Deep Prakashan
• Sahhensha Tomar Puraskar Tomar-i Thak(A Lumber room of Poems by Utpal Dutta),Deep Prakshan

Further reading

• Himani Bannerji, Representation standing class politics in the theatrical piece of Utpal Dutt.

  Centre stand for Studies in Social Sciences, 1988. ASIN B0000D6DGM

• Arup Mukhopadhay, "Utpal Dutta: Jeevan O Sristhi" (in Bengali), Official Book Trust, New Delhi, 2010 (Reprinted in 2011). ISBN 978-81-237-5901-2
• Joel Schechter, Popular theatre: a sourcebook, Cosmoss of performance.

  Routledge, 2003. Coliseum As Weapon: Utpal Dutt. ISBN 0-415-25830-8.

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