Jabbar Patel
Jabbar Patel ( Marathi : जब्बार पटेल , Jabbār Patel ; born June 23, 1942 in Pandharpur , Maharashtra ) is a Marathic Indian theater and film director and pediatrician.
Life
Together with his wife, a gynecologist, Patel, who was trained and worked as a pediatrician, ran a clinic in Daund near Pune . In addition to this professional activity, he is active in marathic film and theater.
Patel founded the theater group "Theater Academy", which was one of the best-known representatives of experimental Marathic theater. Among other things, she successfully performed Vijay Tendulkar's piece Ghashiram Kotwal (1972) and an adaptation of Brecht's Threepenny Opera in Marathic language , in which rock music and stylistic devices from commercial Hindi films were also used.
In 1975, Patel made his film director debut with Saamna . As with Patel's productions Sinhasan (1979) and Umbartha (1981), the script came from the pen of the author Tendulkar and is political. The film is in acting and acting - the theater greats Shreeram Lagoo and Nilu Phule took the leading roles - the theater arrested. It ran in the competition at the Berlinale 1975 . In Patel's best-known film Umbartha , Smita Patil plays the role of a woman who runs away from her husband, played by Girish Karnad , into a women's ashram (a “women's shelter”) and finally returns to him disaffected. When he tells her that he has meanwhile taken a lover and wants to keep her, the woman goes her own way. A Hindi version of the film was also shot under the name Subah .
In the second half of the 1980s, Jabbar Patel only made documentaries . Patel won a National Film Award for national integration with the Dalit drama Mukta (1994) about casteism . After making a documentary about Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar in 1991 , he and Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar made a feature film about him in 2000. The Keralesian actor Mammootty took on the title role .
Filmography
- 1975: Saamna
- 1977: Jait Re Jait
- 1979: Sinhasan
- 1981: Umbartha / Subah
- 1986: Musafir
- 1986: Maharashtra (documentary)
- 1987: Mi SM (documentary)
- 1988: Indian Theater (documentary)
- 1988: Pathik (documentary)
- 1989: Lakshman Joshi (documentary)
- 1990: Sea Forts (documentary)
- 1991: Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar (documentary)
- 1992: Ek Hota Vidushak
- 1994: Mukta
- 2000: Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
Web links
- Jabbar Patel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Patel, Jabbar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | जब्बार पटेल |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian theater and film director and pediatrician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pandharpur , Maharashtra |