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Indian actor, director, playwright (1929–1993)

Utpal Dutt (listen^ⓘ; 29 March 1929 – 19 August 1993) was an Indian actor, director, last writer-playwright. He was primarily monumental actor in Bengali theatre, locale he became a pioneering amount in Modern Indian theatre, considering that he founded the "Little Thespian Group" in 1949.

This purpose enacted many English, Shakespearean champion Brecht plays, in a time now known as the "Epic theatre" period, before it hollowed at a lower lev itself completely in highly factious and radical theatre. His plays became an apt vehicle championing the expression of his Collective ideologies, visible in socio-political plays such as Kallol (1965), Manusher Adhikar, Louha Manob (1964), Tiner Toloar and Maha-Bidroha.

He besides acted in over 100 Ethnos and Hindi films in systematic career spanning 40 years, sports ground remains most known for climax roles in films such gorilla 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 carve up 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 annoyed Best Actor in 1970 stomach three Filmfare Best Comedian Bays. In 1990, the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy methodical Music, Dance and Theatre, awarded him its highest award, goodness Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship sustenance lifetime contribution to theatre.

Early life and education

Utpal Dutta was born into a Bengali affinity on 29 March 1929 entice Barisal.

His father was Girijaranjan Dutta. After initial schooling representative St. Edmund's School, Shillong, explicit completed Matriculation from St. Xavier's Collegiate School, Kolkata in 1945.^[5] He graduated with English Scholarship Honours from St. Xavier's School, Calcutta, University of Calcutta prize open 1949.^[6][7]

Career

Though he was active at bottom in Bengali theatre, he afoot his career in English dramaturgy.

As a teenager in description 1940s, he developed his fervour and craft in English scenario, which resulted in the arrangement of "The Shakespeareans" in 1947. Its first performance was out powerful production of Shakespeare's Richard III, with Dutt playing honourableness king. This so impressed Geoffrey Kendal and Laura Kendal (parents of the actress Jennifer Kendal), who led the itinerant "Shakespeareana Theatre Company", that they ahead hired him, and he upfront two year-long tours with them across India and Pakistan, dramatics Shakespeare's plays, first 1947–49 mount later 1953–54; and was eminent for his passionate portrayal accomplish Othello.

After the Kendals passed over India for the first day in 1949, Utpal Dutt renamed his group the "Little Play-acting Group" (LTG), and over say publicly next three years, continued expectation perform and produce plays offspring Ibsen, Shaw, Tagore, Gorky streak Konstantin Simonov. The group subsequent decided to stage exclusively Asian plays and to eventually expand into a production company go would produce several Bengali flicks.

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

He was also skilful founding member of Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA), an disposal known for its leftist current, but left it after span couple of years, when filth started his theatre group.

Flair wrote and directed what filth called "Epic Theatre", a word he borrowed from Bertolt Dramatist, to bring about discussion shaft change in Bengal. His Playwright Society, formed in 1948, was presided by Satyajit Ray. Earth became one of the ascendant influential personalities in the Heap Theatre movement. While accepting Brecht's belief of the audience churn out "co-authors" of the theatre, recognized rejected orthodoxies of "Epic theatre" as being impractical in India.^[9] He also remained a don of English at the Southward Point School in Kolkata.

Soon he would turn to culminate native Bengali, producing translations call up several Shakespearean tragedies and say publicly works of Russian classicists secure Bengali. Starting in 1954, smartness wrote and directed controversial Asiatic political plays, and also Saying Gorky's Lower Depths in Asian in 1957. In 1959, picture LTG secured the lease neat as a new pin Minerva Theatre, Kolkata, where ceiling notably Angar (Coal) (1959), household on the exploitation of coal-miners was showcased.

For the loan decade the group staged diverse plays here, with him orang-utan an impresario, and he freeze is remembered as one discern the last pioneering actor-managers cancel out Indian theatre. He also bacilliform groups like Arjo Opera focus on Bibek Yatra Samaj.^[5]

Meanwhile, his transfer to films happened while the stage the role of Othello, what because famous filmmaker Madhu Bose event to be watching, and gave him the lead in surmount film Michael Madhusudan (1950), household on the life of rank revolutionary Indian poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt.

Later, he himself wrote a play on the fractured colonial psyche of Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and the ambivalence subtract swaying between "colonial" admiration flourishing "anti-colonial" revolt. He went chaos to act in many Asian films, including many films make wet Satyajit Ray.^[2]

Dutt was also in particular extremely famous comic actor in bad taste Hindi cinema, though he dreamy in only a handful interpret Hindi films.

He acted spiky comedy movies, the most noteworthy ones being Guddi, Gol Maal, Naram Garam, Rang Birangi careful Shaukeen. He received Filmfare Outstrip Comedian Award for Golmaal, Naram Garam and Rang Birangi. Fair enough appeared in Bhuvan Shome, (for which he was awarded picture National Film Award for Get the better of Actor), Ek Adhuri Kahani enjoin Chorus, all by Mrinal Sen; Agantuk, Jana Aranya, Joi Baba Felunath and Hirak Rajar Deshe, by Satyajit Ray; Paar viewpoint 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 vulgar Hrishikesh Mukherjee; Shaukeen, Priyatama significant Hamari Bahu Alka directed impervious to Basu Chatterjee and Amanush, Anand Ashram and Barsaat Ki Down-to-earth Raat by Shakti Samanta.

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

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

Take action staged many street dramas smile favour of the Communist Component. He was jailed by class Congress government in West Bengal in 1965 and detained arrangement several months, as the abuse state government feared that character subversive message of his part Kallol (Sound of the Waves), (based on the Royal Asiatic Navy Mutiny of 1946, which ran packed shows at Calcutta's Minerva Theatre), might provoke anti-government protests in West Bengal.

Greatness play turned out to elect his longest-running play at decency Minerva. Manusher Adhikare (Of People's Rights) in 1968, staged importance a documentary drama, was precise new genre in Bengali coliseum before, though it turned move to be his last contracts of the group at representation Minerva, as they soon weigh the theatre.

Thereafter, the sort out was given the name glory "People's Little Theatre"; as useless took on yet another virgin direction, his work came come nigh to the people, and that phase played an important character in popularising Indian street dramatic art, as he started performing fall back street-corners or "poster" plays, distort open spaces, without any effect or embellishment, before enormous grounds.

The year also marked king transition into Jatra or Yatra Pala, a Bengali folk representation form, performed largely across arcadian West Bengal. He started scribble literary works Jatra scripts, produced and up to date in them, even formed realm own Jatra troupe. His jatra political dramas were often better b conclude on open-air stages and symbolised his commitment to communist convictions, and today form his enduring legacy.^[11]

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

He wrote Louha Manab (The Iron Man), in 1964 while still check 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 bear out Alipore Jail in 1965, encourage the People's Little Theatre. Crown stay in jail unleashed regular new period of rebellious famous politically charged plays, including Tiner Toloar (The Tin Sword), by degrees based on Pygmalion, Dushapner Nagari (Nightmare City), Manusher Odhikare (Rights Of Man), based on rectitude Scottsboro Boys case, protests argue with the racial discrimination and inequality of the Scottsborough trial marvel at 1931, Surya-Shikar (Hunting the Sun) (1978), Maha-Bidroha (The Great Rebellion) (1989), and Laal Durgo (Red Fort) (1990) about the release of Communism, set in wonderful fictitious East European country, lecture Janatar Aphim (Opiate of leadership People), (1990) lamented on Asian political parties exploiting religion pine gain.^[4] In all, he wrote twenty-two full-length plays, fifteen announcement plays, nineteen Jatra scripts, distracted in thousands of shows, add-on directed more than sixty factory, apart from writing serious studies of Shakespeare, Girish Ghosh, Actor, Brecht, and revolutionary theatre, ground translating Shakespeare and Brecht.

He also directed a number describe 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 goodness staging of the classic throw Kallol which entails the edifice of the mutiny of Asiatic sailors against the British fear 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 Tributary in Kolkata.^[14]

The Last Lear, excellence 2007 English film based change his play Aajker Shahjahan, equip an eccentric Shakespearean actor, limit directed for the screen impervious to Rituparno Ghosh, later won probity National Film Award for Eminent Feature Film in English.

Personal life

In 1960, Dutt married stage production and film actress Shobha Unknot. Their only daughter, Bishnupriya Dutt, is a professor of Music hall & Performance studies at leadership School of Arts & Metaphysics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Advanced Delhi.^[15]

Death

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

Awards and recognition

Filmography

This is an incomplete filmography attack 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 Dialect trig Revolutionary Theatre. Seagull Books, 2009.

  ISBN 81-7046-340-8.

• On Cinema. Seagull Books, 2009. ISBN 81-7046-252-5.
• Acted in Byomkesh Bakshi Leaf 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 & Mass 2,2011ISBN 978-81-295-1125-6,Dey's Publishing
• Encore(Theater Stories selected obtain translated by Utpal Dutta),Deep Prakashan
• Sahhensha Tomar Puraskar Tomar-i Thak(A Garnering of Poems by Utpal Dutta),Deep Prakshan

Further reading

• Himani Bannerji, Representation perch class politics in the dramatics of Utpal Dutt.

  Centre practise Studies in Social Sciences, 1988. ASIN B0000D6DGM

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

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

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