Sombhu Mitra
Sombhu Mitra (also Shombhu Mitra and Shambhu Mitra, Bengali: শম্ভু মিত্র, Sambhu Mitra, born August 22, 1915 in Calcutta, † May 19, 1997 ) was an Indian actor and director in theater and film, and wrote plays. He worked in the Bengali and Hindi languages and is one of the most important representatives of the Indian theater of the 20th century.
Life
Sombhu Mitra was already interested in his school days, contrary to the expectations of his father, in theatrical performances. From 1931 he attended the St. Xavier 's College in Calcutta and engaged in the performing arts. His acting career began in 1939 at the age of 24 years. He played at various theaters in Calcutta, where he performed with the renowned mime Sisir Bhaduri, Ahindra Choudhury, Naresh Mitra and Manoranjan Bhattacharya. Dissatisfied with the prevailing style of dramatic presentation left Mitra commercial stage and joined in 1943 the left-wing theater movement Indian People 's Theatre Association ( IPTA ) to. His first production he brought to the stage in 1944, Bijon Bhattacharya's current political play Nabanna (1943 ) on the Bengal famine of that year. Mitra worked with this builder Drama identification stiftend for the IPTA, with whose activities he was connected until 1948. Nabanna the audience was successful because it the first time in their village- dialect brought the problems simple farmer on the theater stage and differed in stage design and choreography of the usual productions.
In 1948 he founded his own theater company " Bohurupee " consisting of 15 performers. Alongside he appeared in productions in order to bridge the financial constraints of its free theater. His film debut was in 1946 Mitra as an actor in the IPTA - produced film Dharti Ke Lal of Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, who was partly a film version of the play Nabanna. One of the first major productions of Bohurupee included 1950/51 Tulsi Lahiri's socially critical pieces Pathik and Chhenra Taar and 1951, the modernized production of Rabindranath Thakur's Four chapters (Char Adhyay ). Mitra presented western theater pieces in an Indian context and brought them as adaptations to the stage. So he reached his audience with Indianised versions of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People ( Dashachakra ) and Nora A Doll's House ( Putulkhela ) and Chekhov's The Jubilee ( Sedin Bangalakshmi Bankey ). In Oedipus of Sophocles, Mitra starred in the title role, his wife Tripti played Oedipus ' mother Jocasta. The Bohurupee production of Thakur's Red Oleander ( Raktakarabi ) won in 1954 the first prize at the National Drama Festival.
After this success, and a few film appearances Sombhu Mitras in the early 1950s, including Paul Zils ' Hindustan Hamara and Debaki Bose Pathik (1953 ) after the play by Tulsi Lahiri, hired him Raj Kapoor along with Amit Moitra the directed Chased Raho to take over. The film won the Grand Prize at the International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary in 1957.
1961, the year of the 100th anniversary of Rabindranath Thakur, Bohurupee led to the author's pieces Red Oleander and The Sacrifice ( Bisarjan ). Mitra treated in traditional Bengali theater sung with pathos texts as normal dialogs. He managed so that a reference to the presence and ended the call of Unaufführbarkeit final. More Thakur performances of Bohurupee in the 1960s were The Post Office ( Dakghar ) and The King (Raja ).
Mitra wrote and also led his own Bengali plays on: Bibhab (1951 ), Ghurnee (1952) and Kancharanga (1961 ) - a satire about a man who caressed by his wife and children because of an alleged money profit, before or since, however, abused and insulted is. Among the most important set of Bohurupee pieces of contemporary Indian Badal Sircar's Pagla Ghora authors include (1969) and Chop, Adalat Chalchhey (1971 ) of the Maratha author Vijay Tendulkar.
In 1968, Mitra the Bengal National Theatre Organization ( Bangla Natmancha pratistha Samity ). He was head of the drama department of Rabindra Bharati University in Calcutta.
Sombhu Mitra was married since 1945 to actress Tripti Mitra, whom he had met in the IPTA. Their daughter Shaonli Mitra is also a theater actress.
Awards
1959 Sangeet Natak Akademi chose him in New Delhi at the best theater director of the year, 1966, he became a Fellow of the institution.
The Indian government gave Sombhu Mitra 1970 Padma Bhushan the Order, 1976, he was awarded the Philippine Ramon Magsaysay Award -.