Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Sombhu Mitra

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Jun 26, 2012, 7:03:18 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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Sombhu Mitra

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+'''Sombhu Mitra (1916-97)'''
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+
+Bengali-Hindi actor and director born in
+Hooghly Dist., Bengal. One of the most
+significant figures of 20th C. Indian theatre. The
+first play he staged, Bijon Bhattacharya’s
+Nabanna (1943), based on the 1943 Calcutta
+famine, was seminal to realist political theatre
+and a reference-point for the IPTA. He made
+his film début in K.A. Abbas’s IPTA-sponsored
+film version of the play Dharti Ke Lal. Set up
+his own theatre group, Bohurupee (1948),
+pioneering indigenous variations of Ibsen’s
+naturalist idiom (Dashachakra, adapting An
+Enemy of the People; Putulkhela, adapting
+Doll’s House; Badal Sircar’s Evam Indrajit) in
+tandem with stylised performances of
+Rabindranath Tagore’s Dak Ghar,
+Raktakarabi and Raja. Later theatre work
+includes exploration of Greek tragedy
+(Oedipus) and Brecht (Galileo). Invited by Raj
+Kapoor to direct Jagte Raho. Considered the
+greatest Bengali actor after Sisir Bhaduri,
+along with contemporaries Ajitesh
+Bandyopadhyay and Utpal Dutt.
+
+
+'''FILMOGRAPHY''' (* only d/** also d): 1946:
+Dharti Ke Lal; 1947: Abhiyatri; 1949: Abarta;
+1950: Hindustan Hamara; 1953: Maharaj
+Nandakumar; Pathik; Bou Thakuranir Haat;
+1954: Maraner Pare; Shivashakti; 1955:
+Durlav Janma; 1956: Jagte Raho/Ek Din
+Raatre**; 1959: Shubha Bibaha*; 1961:
+Manik; 1962: Suryasnan; 1967: Panna; 1969:
+Natun Pata; 1971: Nishachar.
+
+[[Actor]]
+
+[[Director]]