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Dinesh Thakur Residence Mumbai Occupation theatre director, actor Years active 1971-present Known for Ank Theatre Company Website Ank Theatre Group Dinesh Thakur is a noted Indian theatre director, actor in theatre, television and Hindi film, where most notably he appeared as one of the leads in Rajnigandha 1974 and directed by Basu Chatterjee, which won both Filmfare Best Movie Award and the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie. He is the founder-director of ANK productions, a Mumbai-based theatre company, established in 1976.[1]
Though he mainly appeared as character roles in Hindi films, as a screenwriter and story writer, he is known for writing the story and screenplay of Ghar (1978), which won him the 1979 Filmfare Best Story Award.
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Career
Dinesh Thakur did his graduation from Kirori Mal College (KMC), Delhi University, where was also part of the KMC dramatic society.[2]
He made his film debut in 1971, with Mere Apne, written and directed by Gulzar, and followed it up with Basu Bhattacharya's Anubhav (1971), opening film of his trilogy of martial discord in urban settings, there after he also appeared the third film, Griha Pravesh (1979). 1974 saw him appearing in Basu Chatterjee's landmark in middle cinema, Rajnigandha (1974), along side Amol Palekar and Vidya Sinha, which won the Filmfare Best Film Award, and went on appear in several films with both the directors in the coming years.
He established 'Ank Theatre Group' in 1976, dedicated solely to Hindi theatre in Mumbai; though it started flourishing in a big way with the advent on Jennifer Kapoor's Prithvi Theatre in 1978.[3]
Filmography
- Mere Apne (1971)
- Anubhav (1971)
- Jalte Badan (1973)
- Rajnigandha (1974)
- Parinay (1974)
- Faslah (1974)
- Kalicharan (1976)
- Karm (1977)
- Madhu Malti (1978)
- Ghar (1978)
- Naiyya (1979)
- Meera (1979) .... Jaimal Rathod
- Griha Pravesh (1979)
- Khwab (1980)
- The Burning Train (1980)
- La nouvelle malle des Indes (1981) TV mini-series
- Sitara (1980)
- Agni Pareeksha (1981)
- Baghavat (1982)
- Aamne Samne (1982)
- Manju (1983)
- Aaj Ki Awaz (1984)
- Sanjhi (1985)
- Ulta Seedha (1985)
- Surkhiyaan 1985)
- Palay Khan (1986)
- Raj Dulari (1988)
- Aakhri Baazi (1989)
- Panchvati (1990)
- Hum Se Na Takrana (1990)
- Zakhmi Rooh (1993)
- Geetanjali (1993)
- Shanti (1994) TV series
- Aastha(1997)
- Aakhri Sanghursh (1997)
- Fiza (2000)
- Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi TV series (2000)
- Dil Pardesi Ho Gaya (2003)
- Nigehbaan: The Third Eye (2005)
Plays
- Hai Mera Dil, adaption of Broadway play by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore, also made into 1964 American comedy film, Send Me No Flowers with starring Rock Hudson, Doris Day and Tony Randall.[4]
- Jin Lahore Nai Dekhya, Asghar Wajahat
- Tughlaq, Girish Karnad, (translated in Hindustani by B.V. Karanth
- Baqi Itihas and Pagla Ghora, by Badal Sircar
- Suno Janmejaya by Shri Ranga
- Jaat Hi Poochho Sadhu Ki, Vijay Tendulkar
- Khamosh! Adalat Jaari Hai, Vijay Tendulkar
- Kamala, Vijay Tendulkar
- Adhe Adhure, Mohan Rakesh
- Rakt-Beej, Shankar Shesh
- Mahabhoj, Manu Bhandari
- Atamkatha, Mahesh Elkunchwar
- Gaganbhedi, , Vasant Kanetkar
- Hangamakhez, Agha Hashra Kashmiri
- Sheh Ye Maat, B.M. Shah [1]
References
- ^ a b "TV is, for me, the mega-festival of ignorance". The Tribune. May 21, 2000. http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000521/spectrum/main5.htm.
- ^ Ghosh, Abantika (Jun 22, 2006). "All the world's a stage at DU". The Times of India. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1669456.cms.
- ^ "Prithvi, pioneer in theatre". The Hindu. Nov 07, 2003. http://www.hindu.com/fr/2003/11/07/stories/2003110701340600.htm.
- ^ "1000 shows, and still going strong: V. Gangadhar on Dinesh Thakur’s record-breaking play Hai Mera Dil". The Tribune. April 10, 2005. http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050410/spectrum/main3.htm.
External links
- Dinesh Thakur at the Internet Movie Database
- Ank Theatre Group, Website
- Dinesh Thakur Filmography Bollywood Hungama
Filmfare Award for Best Story 1955 – 1970 Mukhram Sharma (1955) · Rajinder Singh Bedi (1956) · Amiya Chakrabarty (1957) · Akhtar Mirza (1958) · Mukhram Sharma (1959) · Subodh Ghosh (1960) · Ruby Sen (1961) · C. V. Sridhar (1962) · K.P. Kottarakara (1963) · Jarasandha (1964) · Ban Bhatt (1965) · Akhtar Mirza (1966) · R. K. Narayan (1967) · Manoj Kumar (1968) · Sachin Bhowmick (1969) · Vasant Kanetkar (1970)
1971 – 1990 Chandrakant Kakodkar (1971) · Hrishikesh Mukherjee (1972) · Basu Bhattacharya (1973) · Salim-Javed (1974) · Kaifi Azmi, Ismat Chughtai (1975) · Salim-Javed (1976) · Balaichand Mukherjee (1977) · Sharat Chandra Chatterji (1978) · Dinesh Thakur (1979) · Shanker Shesh (1980) · Vijay Tendulkar (1981) · Chetan Anand (1982) · Samresh Basu (1983) · S. D. Palwalker (1984) · Mahesh Bhatt (1985) · Aleem Masroor (1986) · no award (1987) · no award (1988) · Subodh Ghosh (1989) · Kasinadhuni Viswanath (1990)
1991 – 2010 Rajkumar Santoshi (1991 ) · Honey Irani (1992) · no award given (1993) · Sutanu Gupta (1994) · K. K. Singh (1995) · Ram Gopal Varma (1996) · Gulzar (1997) · Kamal Haasan (1998) · Mahesh Bhatt (1999) · Vinay Shukla (2000) · Honey Irani (2001) · Ashutosh Gowariker (2002) · Jaideep Sahni (2003) · Nagesh Kukunoor (2004) · Aditya Chopra (2005) · Sudhir Mishra, Ruchi Narain & Shivkumar Subramaniam (2006 ) · Rajkumar Hirani & Vidhu Vinod Chopra (2007) · Amol Gupte (2008) · Abhishek Kapoor (2009) · Abhijat Joshi & Rajkumar Hirani (2010)
2011 – present Anurag Kashyap & Vikramaditya Motwane (2011)
Categories:- Indian actors
- Indian stage actors
- Indian film actors
- Hindi film actors
- Indian theatre directors
- Filmfare Awards winners
- Living people
- Kirori Mal College alumni
- Hindi theatre
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