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Utpal Dutt (listen (help·info); 29 March 1929 – 19 August 1993) was an Indian actor, director, and writer-playwright. He was primarily an actor in Bengali theatre, where he became a pioneering figure in Modern Indian theatre, when he founded the "Little Theatre Group" in 1949. This group enacted many English, Shakespearean and Brecht plays, in a period now known as the "Epic theatre" period, before it immersed itself completely in highly political and radical theatre. His plays became an apt vehicle for the expression of his Marxist ideologies, visible in socio-political plays such as Kallol (1965), Manusher Adhikar, Louha Manob (1964), Tiner Toloar and Maha-Bidroha. He also acted in over 100 Bengali and Hindi films in a career spanning 40 years, and remains most known for his roles in films such as Mrinal Sen’s Bhuvan Shome (1969), Satyajit Ray’s Agantuk (1991), Gautam Ghose’s Padma Nadir Majhi (1993) and Hrishikesh Mukherjee's breezy Hindi comedies such as Gol Maal (1979) and Rang Birangi (1983).[1][2][3][4] He also did the role of a sculptor, Sir Digindra Narayan, in the episode Seemant Heera of Byomkesh Bakshi (TV series) on Doordarshan in 1993, shortly before his death.

Utpal Dutt
Dutt on a 2013 stamp of India
Born(1929-03-29)29 March 1929
Barisal, Bengal Presidency, British India
(present-day Bangladesh)
Died19 August 1993(1993-08-19) (aged 64)
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Other namesUtpal Dutt
Occupation(s)Actor, director, playwright
Years active1947–1993
WorksFilmography
Spouse
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(m. 1960)​
ChildrenBishnupriya Dutta
AwardsFull list

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

Early life and education

Utpal Dutta was born into a Bengali Baidya family on 29 March 1929 in Barisal. His father was Girijaranjan Dutta. He graduated with English Literature Honours from St. Xavier's College, Calcutta, University of Calcutta.[5]

Career

Though he was active primarily in Bengali theatre, he started his career in English theatre. As a teenager in the 1940s, he developed his passion and craft in English theatre, which resulted in the establishment of "The Shakespeareans" in 1947. Its first performance was a powerful production of Shakespeare's Richard III, with Dutt playing the king. This so impressed Geoffrey Kendal and Laura Kendal (parents of the actress Jennifer Kendal), who led the itinerant "Shakespeareana Theatre Company", that they immediately hired him, and he did two year-long tours with them across India and Pakistan, enacting Shakespeare's plays, first 1947–49 and later 1953–54; and was acclaimed for his passionate portrayal of Othello. After the Kendals left India for the first time in 1949, Utpal Dutt renamed his group the "Little Theatre Group" (LTG), and over the next three years, continued to perform and produce plays by Ibsen, Shaw, Tagore, Gorky and Konstantin Simonov. The group later decided to stage exclusively Bengali plays and to eventually evolve into a production company that would produce several Bengali movies. He also remained an active member of Gananatya Sangha, which performed through rural areas of West Bengal.[6]

He was also a founding member of Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA), an organisation known for its leftist leaning, but left it after a couple of years, when he started his theatre group. He wrote and directed what he called "Epic Theatre", a term he borrowed from Bertolt Brecht, to bring about discussion and change in Bengal. His Brecht Society, formed in 1948, was presided by Satyajit Ray. He became one of the most influential personalities in the Group Theatre movement. While accepting Brecht's belief of the audience being "co-authors" of the theatre, he rejected orthodoxies of "Epic theatre" as being impractical in India.[7] He also remained a teacher of English at the South Point School in Kolkata.

Soon he would turn to his native Bengali, producing translations of several Shakespearean tragedies and the works of Russian classicists into Bengali. Starting in 1954, he wrote and directed controversial Bengali political plays, and also Maxim Gorky's Lower Depths in Bengali in 1957. In 1959, the LTG secured the lease of Minerva Theatre, Kolkata, where most notably Angar (Coal) (1959), based on the exploitation of coal-miners was showcased. For the next decade the group staged several plays here, with him as an impresario, and he still is remembered as one of the last pioneering actor-managers of Indian theatre. He also formed groups like Arjo Opera and Bibek Yatra Samaj.[5]

Meanwhile, his transition to films happened while performing the role of Othello, when famous filmmaker Madhu Bose happened to be watching, and gave him the lead in his film Michael Madhusudan (1950), based on the life of the revolutionary Indian poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt. Later, he himself wrote a play on the fragmented colonial psyche of Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and the ambivalence of swaying between "colonial" admiration and "anti-colonial" revolt. He went on to act in many Bengali films, including many films by Satyajit Ray.[2]

Dutt was also an extremely famous comic actor in Hindi cinema, though he acted in only a handful of Hindi films. He acted in comedy movies, the most notable ones being Guddi, Gol Maal, Naram Garam, Rang Birangi and Shaukeen. He received Filmfare Best Comedian Award for Golmaal, Naram Garam and Rang Birangi. He appeared in Bhuvan Shome, (for which he was awarded the National Film Award for Best Actor), Ek Adhuri Kahani and Chorus, all by Mrinal Sen; Agantuk, Jana Aranya, Joi Baba Felunath and Hirak Rajar Deshe, by Satyajit Ray; Paar and Padma Nadir Majhi, by Gautam Ghose; Bombay Talkie, The Guru, and Shakespeare Wallah, by James Ivory; Jukti Takko Aar Gappo, by Ritwik Ghatak; Guddi, Gol Maal and Kotwal Saab by Hrishikesh Mukherjee; Shaukeen, Priyatama and Hamari Bahu Alka directed by Basu Chatterjee and Amanush, Anand Ashram and Barsaat Ki Ek Raat by Shakti Samanta.

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

"Revolutionary theatre is essentially people's theatre, which means it must be played before the masses,.."

Utpal Dutt[7]

Dutt was also a lifelong Marxist and an active supporter of the Communist Party of India (Marxist),[8] and his leftist "Revolutionary Theatre" was a phenomenon in the contemporary Bengali theatre. He staged many street dramas in favour of the Communist Party. He was jailed by the Congress government in West Bengal in 1965 and detained for several months, as the then state government feared that the subversive message of his play Kallol (Sound of the Waves), (based on the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny of 1946, which ran packed shows at Calcutta's Minerva Theatre), might provoke anti-government protests in West Bengal. The play turned out to be his longest-running play at the Minerva. Manusher Adhikare (Of People's Rights) in 1968, staged as a documentary drama, was a new genre in Bengali theatre before, though it turned out to be his last production of the group at the Minerva, as they soon left the theatre. Thereafter, the group was given the name the "People's Little Theatre"; as it took on yet another new direction, his work came closer to the people, and this phase played an important role in popularising Indian street theatre, as he started performing at street-corners or "poster" plays, in open spaces, without any aid or embellishment, before enormous crowds. The year also marked his transition into Jatra or Yatra Pala, a Bengali folk drama form, performed largely across rural West Bengal. He started writing Jatra scripts, produced and acted in them, even formed his own Jatra troupe. His jatra political dramas were often produced on open-air stages and symbolised his commitment to communist ideology, and today form his lasting legacy.[9]

Through the 1970s three of his plays; Barricade, Dusswapner Nagari (City of Nightmares) and Ebaar Rajar Pala (Now it is the King's turn), drew crowds despite being officially banned.[1][5][10][11]

He wrote Louha Manab (The Iron Man), in 1964 while still in jail, based on a real trial against a pro-Stalin, ex-Politburo member by supporters of Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow of 1963. It was first staged at Alipore Jail in 1965, by the People's Little Theatre. His stay in jail unleashed a new period of rebellious and politically charged plays, including Tiner Toloar (The Tin Sword), partially based on Pygmalion, Dushapner Nagari (Nightmare City), Manusher Odhikare (Rights Of Man), based on the Scottsboro Boys case, protests against the racial discrimination and injustice of the Scottsborough trial of 1931, Surya-Shikar (Hunting the Sun) (1978), Maha-Bidroha (The Great Rebellion) (1989), and Laal Durgo (Red Fort) (1990) about the demise of Communism, set in a fictitious East European country, and Janatar Aphim (Opiate of the People), (1990) lamented on Indian political parties exploiting religion for gain.[4] In all, he wrote twenty-two full-length plays, fifteen poster plays, nineteen Jatra scripts, acted in thousands of shows, and directed more than sixty productions, apart from writing serious studies of Shakespeare, Girish Ghosh, Stanislavsky, Brecht, and revolutionary theatre, and translating Shakespeare and Brecht.

He also directed a number of 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

 
Dutt in 2013 stamp of India.

Forty years after the staging of the classic play Kallol which entails the story of the mutiny of Indian sailors against the British on 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 River in Kolkata.[12]

The Last Lear, the 2007 English film based on his play Aajker Shahjahan, on an eccentric Shakespearean actor, and directed for the screen by Rituparno Ghosh, later won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English.

Personal life

In 1960, Dutt married theatre and film actress Shobha Sen. Their only daughter, Bishnupriya Dutt, is a professor of Theatre & Performance studies at the School of Arts & Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.[13]

Death

On 19 August 1993,[5] Dutt died due to a heart attack right after he returned home from the S.S.K.M hospital, Calcutta, West Bengal where he had undergone dialysis.[14]

Awards and recognition

Filmography

This is an incomplete filmography of Utpal Dutt.

Plays

  • Mirkassim
  • Tiner Talowar
  • Ferari Fauj
  • Boniker Rajdando
  • Barricade
  • Chayanat
  • Kangor Karagare
  • Kallol
  • Ongaar
  • Aajker Shahjahan
  • Lohaar Bheem
  • Mahusher Adhikarey
  • Ebar Rajar Pala
  • Danrao Pathikbar

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 A Revolutionary Theatre. Seagull Books, 2009. ISBN 81-7046-340-8.
  • On Cinema. Seagull Books, 2009. ISBN 81-7046-252-5.
  • Acted in Byomkesh Bakshi Episode 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 & Volume 2,2011ISBN 978-81-295-1125-6,Dey's Publishing
  • Encore(Theater Stories selected and translated by Utpal Dutta),Deep Prakashan
  • Sahhensha Tomar Puraskar Tomar-i Thak(A Collection of Poems by Utpal Dutta),Deep Prakshan

Further reading

  • Himani Bannerji, Representation and class politics in the theatre of Utpal Dutt. Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, 1988. ASIN B0000D6DGM
  • Arup Mukhopadhay, "Utpal Dutta: Jeevan O Sristhi" (in Bengali), National Book Trust, New Delhi, 2010 (Reprinted in 2011). ISBN 978-81-237-5901-2
  • Joel Schechter, Popular theatre: a sourcebook, Worlds of performance. Routledge, 2003. Theatre As Weapon: Utpal Dutt. ISBN 0-415-25830-8.

References

  1. ^ a b Inside the actor's mind 8 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine Mint (newspaper), 3 July 2009.
  2. ^ a b Remembering Utpal Dutt[permanent dead link] Shoma A Chatterji, Screen (magazine), 20 August 2004.
  3. ^ [Usurped!] Frontline (magazine), Volume 18 – Issue 12, 9–22 Jun 2001.
  4. ^ a b Stage On & Off: Man in iron mask 23 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine The Telegraph (Kolkata), 26 August 2006.
  5. ^ a b c d Obituary: Utpal Dutt 22 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine The Independent, 21 August 1993.
  6. ^ Utpal Dutt The Columbia encyclopedia of modern drama, Volume 1, by Gabrielle H. Cody, Evert Sprinchorn. Columbia University Press, 2007. ISBN 0231144229. Page 382-383.
  7. ^ a b Utpal DuttTheatres of independence: drama, theory, and urban performance in India since 1947:Studies in theatre history and culture by Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker. University of Iowa Press, 2005. ISBN 0-87745-961-4. Page 114
  8. ^ Saubhadro Chatterji (11 March 2009). "Poll-bound Bengal turns to artistes". Business Standard. from the original on 16 March 2009. Retrieved 13 March 2009.
  9. ^ Rehearsals of revolution: the political theater of Bengal, by Rustom Bharucha. University of Hawaii Press, 1984. ISBN 0-8248-0845-2. Page 55.
  10. ^ Pro-Communist Drama Gets Crowds in Calcutta 22 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine New York Times, 25 November 1965.
  11. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica article on Utpal Dutt 14 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine Britannica.com.
  12. ^ Dutt's Kallol to ride the Hooghly 23 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine The Telegraph (Kolkata), 5 November 2005.
  13. ^ Dutt and his dimensions 7 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine, The Hindu, 26 October 2007.
  14. ^ "Google Groups". from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2015.

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career spanning 40 years and remains most known for his roles in films such as Mrinal Sen s Bhuvan Shome 1969 Satyajit Ray s Agantuk 1991 Gautam Ghose s Padma Nadir Majhi 1993 and Hrishikesh Mukherjee s breezy Hindi comedies such as Gol Maal 1979 and Rang Birangi 1983 1 2 3 4 He also did the role of a sculptor Sir Digindra Narayan in the episode Seemant Heera of Byomkesh Bakshi TV series on Doordarshan in 1993 shortly before his death Utpal DuttDutt on a 2013 stamp of IndiaBorn 1929 03 29 29 March 1929Barisal Bengal Presidency British India present day Bangladesh Died19 August 1993 1993 08 19 aged 64 Calcutta West Bengal IndiaOther namesUtpal DuttOccupation s Actor director playwrightYears active1947 1993WorksFilmographySpouseShobha Sen m 1960 wbr ChildrenBishnupriya DuttaAwardsFull listHe received National Film Award for Best Actor in 1970 and three Filmfare Best Comedian Awards In 1990 the Sangeet Natak Akademi India s National Academy of Music Dance and Theatre awarded him its highest award the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship for lifetime contribution to theatre Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 3 Legacy 4 Personal life 5 Death 6 Awards and recognition 7 Filmography 8 Plays 9 Works 10 Further reading 11 References 12 External linksEarly life and education EditUtpal Dutta was born into a Bengali Baidya family on 29 March 1929 in Barisal His father was Girijaranjan Dutta He graduated with English Literature Honours from St Xavier s College Calcutta University of Calcutta 5 Career EditThough he was active primarily in Bengali theatre he started his career in English theatre As a teenager in the 1940s he developed his passion and craft in English theatre which resulted in the establishment of The Shakespeareans in 1947 Its first performance was a powerful production of Shakespeare s Richard III with Dutt playing the king This so impressed Geoffrey Kendal and Laura Kendal parents of the actress Jennifer Kendal who led the itinerant Shakespeareana Theatre Company that they immediately hired him and he did two year long tours with them across India and Pakistan enacting Shakespeare s plays first 1947 49 and later 1953 54 and was acclaimed for his passionate portrayal of Othello After the Kendals left India for the first time in 1949 Utpal Dutt renamed his group the Little Theatre Group LTG and over the next three years continued to perform and produce plays by Ibsen Shaw Tagore Gorky and Konstantin Simonov The group later decided to stage exclusively Bengali plays and to eventually evolve into a production company that would produce several Bengali movies He also remained an active member of Gananatya Sangha which performed through rural areas of West Bengal 6 He was also a founding member of Indian People s Theatre Association IPTA an organisation known for its leftist leaning but left it after a couple of years when he started his theatre group He wrote and directed what he called Epic Theatre a term he borrowed from Bertolt Brecht to bring about discussion and change in Bengal His Brecht Society formed in 1948 was presided by Satyajit Ray He became one of the most influential personalities in the Group Theatre movement While accepting Brecht s belief of the audience being co authors of the theatre he rejected orthodoxies of Epic theatre as being impractical in India 7 He also remained a teacher of English at the South Point School in Kolkata Soon he would turn to his native Bengali producing translations of several Shakespearean tragedies and the works of Russian classicists into Bengali Starting in 1954 he wrote and directed controversial Bengali political plays and also Maxim Gorky s Lower Depths in Bengali in 1957 In 1959 the LTG secured the lease of Minerva Theatre Kolkata where most notably Angar Coal 1959 based on the exploitation of coal miners was showcased For the next decade the group staged several plays here with him as an impresario and he still is remembered as one of the last pioneering actor managers of Indian theatre He also formed groups like Arjo Opera and Bibek Yatra Samaj 5 Meanwhile his transition to films happened while performing the role of Othello when famous filmmaker Madhu Bose happened to be watching and gave him the lead in his film Michael Madhusudan 1950 based on the life of the revolutionary Indian poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt Later he himself wrote a play on the fragmented colonial psyche of Michael Madhusudan Dutt and the ambivalence of swaying between colonial admiration and anti colonial revolt He went on to act in many Bengali films including many films by Satyajit Ray 2 Dutt was also an extremely famous comic actor in Hindi cinema though he acted in only a handful of Hindi films He acted in comedy movies the most notable ones being Guddi Gol Maal Naram Garam Rang Birangi and Shaukeen He received Filmfare Best Comedian Award for Golmaal Naram Garam and Rang Birangi He appeared in Bhuvan Shome for which he was awarded the National Film Award for Best Actor Ek Adhuri Kahani and Chorus all by Mrinal Sen Agantuk Jana Aranya Joi Baba Felunath and Hirak Rajar Deshe by Satyajit Ray Paar and Padma Nadir Majhi by Gautam Ghose Bombay Talkie The Guru and Shakespeare Wallah by James Ivory Jukti Takko Aar Gappo by Ritwik Ghatak Guddi Gol Maal and Kotwal Saab by Hrishikesh Mukherjee Shaukeen Priyatama and Hamari Bahu Alka directed by Basu Chatterjee and Amanush Anand Ashram and Barsaat Ki Ek Raat by Shakti Samanta Utpal Dutt also played the main villain characters in some of the major successful Amitabh Bachchan starrers such as The Great Gambler Inquilaab film and the bilingual Hindi Bangla movie Barsaat Ki Ek Raat In fact Utpal Dutt was the Hero main lead in Amitabh Bachchan s maiden venture Saat Hindustani Revolutionary theatre is essentially people s theatre which means it must be played before the masses Utpal Dutt 7 Dutt was also a lifelong Marxist and an active supporter of the Communist Party of India Marxist 8 and his leftist Revolutionary Theatre was a phenomenon in the contemporary Bengali theatre He staged many street dramas in favour of the Communist Party He was jailed by the Congress government in West Bengal in 1965 and detained for several months as the then state government feared that the subversive message of his play Kallol Sound of the Waves based on the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny of 1946 which ran packed shows at Calcutta s Minerva Theatre might provoke anti government protests in West Bengal The play turned out to be his longest running play at the Minerva Manusher Adhikare Of People s Rights in 1968 staged as a documentary drama was a new genre in Bengali theatre before though it turned out to be his last production of the group at the Minerva as they soon left the theatre Thereafter the group was given the name the People s Little Theatre as it took on yet another new direction his work came closer to the people and this phase played an important role in popularising Indian street theatre as he started performing at street corners or poster plays in open spaces without any aid or embellishment before enormous crowds The year also marked his transition into Jatra or Yatra Pala a Bengali folk drama form performed largely across rural West Bengal He started writing Jatra scripts produced and acted in them even formed his own Jatra troupe His jatra political dramas were often produced on open air stages and symbolised his commitment to communist ideology and today form his lasting legacy 9 Through the 1970s three of his plays Barricade Dusswapner Nagari City of Nightmares and Ebaar Rajar Pala Now it is the King s turn drew crowds despite being officially banned 1 5 10 11 He wrote Louha Manab The Iron Man in 1964 while still in jail based on a real trial against a pro Stalin ex Politburo member by supporters of Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow of 1963 It was first staged at Alipore Jail in 1965 by the People s Little Theatre His stay in jail unleashed a new period of rebellious and politically charged plays including Tiner Toloar The Tin Sword partially based on Pygmalion Dushapner Nagari Nightmare City Manusher Odhikare Rights Of Man based on the Scottsboro Boys case protests against the racial discrimination and injustice of the Scottsborough trial of 1931 Surya Shikar Hunting the Sun 1978 Maha Bidroha The Great Rebellion 1989 and Laal Durgo Red Fort 1990 about the demise of Communism set in a fictitious East European country and Janatar Aphim Opiate of the People 1990 lamented on Indian political parties exploiting religion for gain 4 In all he wrote twenty two full length plays fifteen poster plays nineteen Jatra scripts acted in thousands of shows and directed more than sixty productions apart from writing serious studies of Shakespeare Girish Ghosh Stanislavsky Brecht and revolutionary theatre and translating Shakespeare and Brecht He also directed a number of 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 Edit Dutt in 2013 stamp of India Forty years after the staging of the classic play Kallol which entails the story of the mutiny of Indian sailors against the British on 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 River in Kolkata 12 The Last Lear the 2007 English film based on his play Aajker Shahjahan on an eccentric Shakespearean actor and directed for the screen by Rituparno Ghosh later won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English Personal life EditIn 1960 Dutt married theatre and film actress Shobha Sen Their only daughter Bishnupriya Dutt is a professor of Theatre amp Performance studies at the School of Arts amp Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi 13 Death EditOn 19 August 1993 5 Dutt died due to a heart attack right after he returned home from the S S K M hospital Calcutta West Bengal where he had undergone dialysis 14 Awards and recognition Edit1990 Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship for lifetime contribution to theatre National Film Award for Best Actor Won 1970 Bhuvan Shome Bhuvan ShomeFilmfare Best Comedian Award Won 1980 Gol Maal Bhawani Shankar 1982 Naram Garam Bhavani Shankar 1984 Rang Birangi Police Inspector Dhurandhar Bhatawdekar Bengal Film Journalists Association Award Best Actor Award Won 1993 Agantuk Manomohan Mitra Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award Nominated 1975 Amanush Mahim Ghoshal 1980 Gol Maal Bhawani Shankar 1986 Saaheb Badri Prasad SharmaFilmography EditThis is an incomplete filmography of Utpal Dutt Michael Madhusudhan 1950 Vidyasagar 1950 Vikram Urvashi 1954 Rani Rasmani 1955 Taka Ana Pay 1956 Subhalagna 1956 Harano Sur 1957 Saptapadi 1961 voice Rakta Palash 1962 Shesh Anka 1963 Surya Sikha 1963 Momer Alo 1964 Shakespeare Wallah 1965 Chowringhee 1968 The Guru 1969 Bhuvan Shome 1969 Saat Hindustani 1969 Bombay Talkie 1970 Kalankita Nayak 1970 Calcutta 71 1971 Guddi 1971 Khunjey Berai 1971 Ek Adhuri Kahani 1972 Mere Jeevan Saathi 1972 Sabse Bada Sukh 1972 Honeymoon 1973 Marjina Abdulla 1973 Shriman Prithviraj 1973 Asati 1974 Chorus 1974 Mr Romeo 1974 Jukti Takko Aar Gappo 1974 Thagini 1974 Amanush 1975 Julie 1975 Anari 1975 Palanka 1975 Jana Aranya 1976 Datta 1976 Do Anjaane 1976 Santan 1976 Sei Chokh 1976 Shaque 1976 Kotwal Saab 1977 Yehi Hai Zindagi 1977 Immaan Dharam 1977 as Balbir Singh Military Man Anand Ashram 1977 Anurodh 1977 Dulhan Wahi Jo Piya Man Bhaaye 1977 Farishta Ya Qatil 1977 Kissa Kursi Ka 1977 Priyatama 1977 Swami 1977 Atithee 1978 Striker 1978 Safed Haathi 1978 Dhanraj Tamang 1978 Joi Baba Felunath 1978 Toote Khilone 1978 Kartavya 1979 as Dewan Dhanpati Rai Gol Maal 1979 The Great Gambler 1979 Jhor 1979 Prem Vivah 1979 Agreement 1980 Hirak Rajar Deshe 1980 Paka Dekha 1980 Apne Paraye 1980 Ram Balram 1980 Agni Pareeksha 1981 Naram Garam 1981 Barsaat Ki Ek Raat 1981 aka Anusandhan India Bengali title Chaalchitra 1981 Meghmukti 1981 Subarna Golak 1981 Shaukeen 1981 Baisakhi Megh 1981 as Colonel Manningham Rajbadhu 1982 Raaste Pyar Ke 1982 Hamari Bahu Alka 1982 Angoor 1982 Achha Bura 1983 Rang Birangi 1983 Duti Pata 1983 Kissi Se Na Kehna 1983 Pasand Apni Apni 1983 Shubh Kaamna 1983 Love Marriage 1984 John Jani Janardhan 1984 Lakhon Ki Baat 1984 Inquilaab 1984 Paar 1984 Yeh Desh 1984 Saaheb 1985 Harishchandra Shaibya 1985 Mera Damad 1985 Aar Paar 1985 Anyay Abichar 1985 citation needed Ulta Seedha 1985 Aap Ke Saath 1986 Baat Ban Jaye 1986 Kirayadar 1986 Main Balwan 1986 Pathbhola 1986 Sadaa Suhagan 1986 Kissa Kathmandu Ka 1986 1987 TV series Pyar Ke Kabil 1987 Aaj Ka Robin Hood 1987 Asha o Bhalobasha 1988 Mahaveera 1988 La Nuit Bengali 1988 Bahurani 1989 Jawani Zindabad 1990 Mera Pati Sirf Mera Hai 1990 Agantuk 1991 Jaan Pechaan 1991 Path o Prasad 1991 Byomkesh Bakshi 1993 Padma Nadir Majhi 1993 Misti Madhur 1993 Ajana Path 1994 Plays EditMirkassim Tiner Talowar Ferari Fauj Boniker Rajdando Barricade Chayanat Kangor Karagare Kallol Ongaar Aajker Shahjahan Lohaar Bheem Mahusher Adhikarey Ebar Rajar Pala Danrao PathikbarWorks EditGirish 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 A Revolutionary Theatre Seagull Books 2009 ISBN 81 7046 340 8 On Cinema Seagull Books 2009 ISBN 81 7046 252 5 Acted in Byomkesh Bakshi Episode 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 amp Volume 2 2011ISBN 978 81 295 1125 6 Dey s Publishing Encore Theater Stories selected and translated by Utpal Dutta Deep Prakashan Sahhensha Tomar Puraskar Tomar i Thak A Collection of Poems by Utpal Dutta Deep PrakshanFurther reading EditHimani Bannerji Representation and class politics in the theatre of Utpal Dutt Centre for Studies in Social Sciences 1988 ASIN B0000D6DGM Arup Mukhopadhay Utpal Dutta Jeevan O Sristhi in Bengali National Book Trust New Delhi 2010 Reprinted in 2011 ISBN 978 81 237 5901 2 Joel Schechter Popular theatre a sourcebook Worlds of performance Routledge 2003 Theatre As Weapon Utpal Dutt ISBN 0 415 25830 8 References Edit a b Inside the actor s mind Archived 8 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine Mint newspaper 3 July 2009 a b Remembering Utpal Dutt permanent dead link Shoma A Chatterji Screen magazine 20 August 2004 The Mirror of Class Essays on Bengali Theatre by Himani Bannerji Usurped Frontline magazine Volume 18 Issue 12 9 22 Jun 2001 a b Stage On amp Off Man in iron mask Archived 23 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine The Telegraph Kolkata 26 August 2006 a b c d Obituary Utpal Dutt Archived 22 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine The Independent 21 August 1993 Utpal Dutt The Columbia encyclopedia of modern drama Volume 1 by Gabrielle H Cody Evert Sprinchorn Columbia University Press 2007 ISBN 0231144229 Page 382 383 a b Utpal DuttTheatres of independence drama theory and urban performance in India since 1947 Studies in theatre history and culture by Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker University of Iowa Press 2005 ISBN 0 87745 961 4 Page 114 Saubhadro Chatterji 11 March 2009 Poll bound Bengal turns to artistes Business Standard Archived from the original on 16 March 2009 Retrieved 13 March 2009 Rehearsals of revolution the political theater of Bengal by Rustom Bharucha University of Hawaii Press 1984 ISBN 0 8248 0845 2 Page 55 Pro Communist Drama Gets Crowds in Calcutta Archived 22 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine New York Times 25 November 1965 Encyclopaedia Britannica article on Utpal Dutt Archived 14 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine Britannica com Dutt s Kallol to ride the Hooghly Archived 23 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine The Telegraph Kolkata 5 November 2005 Dutt and his dimensions Archived 7 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine The Hindu 26 October 2007 Google Groups Archived from the original on 27 September 2018 Retrieved 23 December 2015 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Utpal Dutt Utpal Dutt at IMDb Works by or about Utpal Dutt at Internet Archive Profile at Calcuttaweb comPortal BiographyUtpal Dutt at Wikipedia s sister projects Media from Commons Data from Wikidata Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Utpal Dutt amp oldid 1150924256, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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