Jabbar Patel

Jabbar Patel ( Marathi: जब्बार पटेल, Jabbar Patel, born June 23, 1942 in Pandharpur, Maharashtra ) is an Indian marathischer theater and film director and pediatrician.

Life

Together with his wife, a gynecologist, led the trained as a pediatrician and working Patel a clinic in Daund near Pune. In addition to these professional activities, he is active in the Maratha film and theater.

Patel founded the theater group "Theatre Academy", which was one of the most famous representatives of the Maratha experimental theater. She successfully led inter alia to Vijay Tendulkars piece Ghashiram Kotwal (1972) and an adaptation of Brecht's Threepenny Opera in marathischer language, which also rock music and stylistic devices of the commercial Hindi film were used.

1975, Patel made ​​his debut as a film director with Saamna. The script came as well as in productions Sinhasan Patel (1979) and Umbartha (1981 ) from the pen of the author Tendulkar and political topic. The film is in acting and actors - lead roles took over the theater greats Shreeram Lagoo and Nilu Phule - arrested the theater. He was in competition at the Berlinale 1975. In Patel's best-known film Umbartha Smita Patil plays the role of a woman (a " women's shelter " ) runs away from her husband, played by Girish Karnad, in a Frauenashram and disillusioned finally again return to him. When he tells her that he has since taken a mistress and they continue to want to keep the woman goes her own way. Under the name title Subah also a Hindi version of the film was shot.

In the second half of the 1980s Jabbar Patel turned exclusively documentaries. With the Dalit Drama Mukta ( 1994) on Kasteismus Patel won a National Film Award for national integration. After he had in 1991 made ​​a documentary about Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, he created in 2000 a feature film about him. The title role is taken over by the Keralite actor Mammootty.

Filmography

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