
Known for
Acting
Born
March 29, 1929
Birthplace
Barisal, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died
August 19, 1993 (aged 64)
(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...
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as Maganlal Meghraj
2008
Theatre Play
2005
as Self (archive footage)
1995
1995
1993
as Hossain Miah
1992
as Biplab Panja
1992
1992
1991
1991
as Manomohan Mitra
1991
1991
1991
1991
1990
as MLA Goverdhan Verma
1990
as Grandfather
1990
1989
as Sadanand Chaudhary
1989
1989
1988
as The Priest / Postman / Beggar
1988
1988
1988