- Satyadev Dubey
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1978National Film Award for Best Screenplay :Bhumika Satyadev Dubey is an Indian playwright, screenwriter and film and theatre actor, and film director. He was awarded the
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1971.He won the 1978
National Film Award for Best Screenplay forShyam Benegal 'sBhumika and 1980Filmfare Best Dialogue Award for Junoon.Biography
Satyadev Dubey was born in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh in 1936. He moved Mumbai with an aim to become a cricketer, but ended up joining the 'Theatre Unit', a theatre group run by
Ebrahim Alkazi ,w hich also acted a school for many budding artists. Later when Alkazi left for Delhi to headNational School of Drama , he took over the 'Theatre Unit', and went on to produce many important plays in Indian theatre.He produced,
Girish Karnad 's first play 'Yayati', and also his noted play 'Hayavadana' Badal Sircar’s Evam Indrajit' and 'Pagla Ghoda', Chandrasekhar Kambar’s “Aur Tota Bola” (“Jokumaraswamy” in original Kannada),Mohan Rakesh ’s “Aadhe Adhure”,Vijay Tendulkar ’s “Khamosh! Adalat Jaari Hai”, and 'A Raincoat For All Occasions' andJean Anouilh 's Antigone in 2007.He is credited to the discovery of
Dharmavir Bharati ’s 'Andha Yug, a play that was written for radio, yet Dubey saw its potential, sent it across to Ebrahim Alkazi at National School of Drama, and the rest is history, in modern Indian theatre, 'when staged in 1962, Andha Yug' brought in a new paradigm in Indian theatre of the times [ [http://www.hindu.com/mag/2007/11/25/stories/2007112550080200.htm The Hindu, Nov 25, 2007] ] .He has made two short films 'Aparichay ke Vindhachal' (1965) and 'Tongue In Cheek' (1968) [ [http://www.telegraphindia.com/1051107/asp/calcutta/story_5446946.asp The Telegraph, November 07, 2005] ] , and directed a
Marathi feature film, 'Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe' in 1971, based onVijay Tendulkar 's play, which in turn is based on Friedrich Dürrenmatt's story "Die Panne".Filmography
* Ankur - 1974 - Dialogue, Screenplay
* Nishant - 1975 - Dialogue
*Bhumika 1977 - Dialogue, Screenplay
* Junoon - 1978 - Dialogue
* Kalyug - 1980 - Dialogue
* Aakrosh - 1980 - Dialogue
*Vijeta - 1982 - Dialogue, Screenplay
* Mandi - 1983 - ScreenplayReferences
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