Shantaram Athavale

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Shantaram Govind Athavale ( Marathi : शांताराम आठवले Śāntārām Āṭhavale ; born January 21, 1910 in Pune ; † May 2, 1975 ) was an Indian songwriter , film director , documentary filmmaker , poet and author . He was active in marathic film and in Hindi film .

Life

Shantaram Athavale was trained by the writer Narayan Hari Apte , whom he helped with the publication of the magazine "Madhukar" in Koregaon . Was asked as Apte 1934, the screenplay for the film Amritmanthan the Prabhat Film Company to write, followed him Athavale as a songwriter. He had immediate success with the song Kiti sikhada . The V. Shantaram film Amritmanthan was also the beginning of the ten-year collaboration between Athavale and the composer Keshavrao Bhole at Prabhat. Athavale gained special recognition for the only newly written song in the Damle - Fattelal film Sant Tukaram (1936). While all other songs were original compositions by Tukaram , Athavale adapted the Adhi beej ekale he wrote to the rhythms of Tukaram's verse in such a way that many Tukaram experts initially thought it was an unknown original composition by the mystic. To the music of Bhole, Athavale wrote most of the lyrics of the Marathi versions of the Prabhat films such as Kunku (1937), Mazha Mulga and Gopal Krishna (both 1938), Sant Dnyaneshwar (1940), Sant Sakhu and Shejari (both 1941), Daha Wajta (1942) and Ramshastri (1944). In addition, he occasionally supported V. Shantaram as an assistant director.

Then Shantaram Athavale left the film company together with the directors Raja Nene and Datta Dharmadhikari , the composer Keshavrao Bhole and the film editor and later director Anant Mane . He had already worked outside Prabhat in 1942 as a dialogue writer and songwriter of the Marathi versions of Debaki Bose's Aple Ghar ( Hindi version: Apna Ghar ) and Vijay Bhatts Bharat Bhet (Hindi version: Bharat Milap ). In 1948 he produced his first self-produced directorial work Bhagya Rekha about a revolutionary underground movement in 1942. For this film he was able to fall back on his Prabhat colleagues Narayan Hari Apte, Keshavrao Bhole and the actress Shanta Apte , who was associated with his songs by the audience. Apte starred and sang one more time in Athavale's next film, Main Abla Nahin Hoon (1949). His song Tu nastirs tar from Vahinichya Bangdya (1953), in which Athavale also appeared as a performer, gained great fame, as did the song Sukh devasi magave from Shevgyachaya Shenga (1955). This film was also a competition entry at the Cannes Film Festival in 1956 . Athavale directed the conventional love story Padada (1958) for the film production company Filmistan . For his last feature film Vavtal (1965) he received several film awards from the Maharashtra government .

In the 1960s he made numerous educational and documentary films in English for the state films division . He wrote about 200 poems in Marathi, some of which were published in the books of poetry Ekale beej and Beejankur , others in magazines. Athavale dealt with spirituality, astrology and Indian cultural history and wrote several volumes on these topics after his own studies. In 1965 he wrote a history of the Prabhat Film Company under the title Prabhat Kaal .

Filmography (direction only)

  • 1948: Bhagya Rekha [M]
  • 1949: Main Abla Nahin Hoon [H]
  • 1953: Vahinichya Bangdya [M]
  • 1954: Sansar Karaychay Mala [M]
  • 1955: Shevgyachya Shenga [M]
  • 1958: Padada [M]
  • 1960: Fix it Right [E] (documentary)
  • 1960: Write it Right [E] (documentary)
  • 1961: How to Vote [E] (documentary)
  • 1961: Gift of Sight [E] (documentary)
  • 1962: Citizens and Citizens [E] (documentary)
  • 1962: The Homecoming [E] (documentary)
  • 1962: Marriage and After [E] (documentary)
  • 1963: Chatur Balak [H]
  • 1965: Vavtal [M]
  • 1968: Sankat Main Swasthya Aur Safai [H] (documentary)
  • 1971: My Village My People [E] (documentary)

Marathi [M], Hindi [H], English [E]

bibliography

  • Ekale beej
  • Beejankur
  • Shantachiya ghara
  • Nadigranth, Ek Abhyas
  • Omkar-rahasya
  • Dnyandevichi Aradhana
  • Kundalini Jagadamba
  • Bakul Fule
  • Sukhachi lipi
  • Prabhat Kaal

literature

  • Shantaram Govind Athavale . In Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , p. 46

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see also http://www.shantaramathavale.com ; how IMDb comes to 1981 cannot be traced with an independent source
personal data
SURNAME Athavale, Shantaram
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Athavale, Shantaram Govind; आठवले, शांताराम (Marathi)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian songwriter, film director, documentary filmmaker, poet and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Pune
DATE OF DEATH May 2nd 1975