Vijaya Mehta
Vijaya Farrokh Mehta (born Vijaya Jaywant ; born November 4, 1934 in Baroda , Bombay ) is an Indian actress and director of theater and film.
biography
Vijaya Mehta was born in what is now Gujarat , graduated from Bombay University and studied theater with Ebrahim Alkazi and Adi Marzban in Delhi . In the 1960s she was one of the leading figures in experimental marathic theater: in 1960 she founded the theater group Rangayan together with the authors Vijay Tendulkar , Arvind Deshpande and Shreeram Lagoo and directed around 30 of the group's plays. Study trips and invitations took her to Great Britain, France, as well as to the FRG, GDR, USSR and USA.
In the early 1960s she performed Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Ionescu's The Chairs . Her most important modern stage productions in Marathi include CT Khanolkars Ek Shoonya Bajirao (1966) and the pieces Sultan , Yatanaghar and Holi by Mahesh Elkunchwar in 1970. She worked on Indo-German theater projects with director Fritz Bennewitz , the performances of Bhasas Mudrarakshasa and Kalidasa's Shakuntala with German actors in Germany.
In 1980 she appeared in a small role in Shyam Benegals Kalyug to study Benegals directing style. This experience gave her enough support for her directorial debut in film. In 1983 she filmed the autobiography of Lakshmibai Tilak, the wife of the philosopher Narayan V. Tilak, for the state-owned Indian television broadcaster Doordarshan under the title Smritichitre . The following year she appeared in Govind Nihalani's Elkunchwar film adaptation, Party . With on a short story by BK Karanjia based from the early 1950s Pestonjee (1987) - one in Bombay Parsis playing -Milieu history - it created a much-discussed classics of Hindi film . Except Pestonjee is most of their cinematic work of television adaptations of her stage plays.
In 1987 she was elected President of Akhil Bharatiya Natya Parishad. From 1988 to 1992 she was director of the National School of Drama in Delhi. In 1993 she became Executive Director of the National Center for the Performing Arts in Bombay.
Her first marriage was to Durga Khote 's younger son Harin and she was widowed at the age of 27. Then she married the stage actor Farrokh Mehta.
Filmography
- 1980: Kalyug (actor)
- 1983: Smritichitre (director, actor) - TV film
- 1984: Party (Actor)
- 1986: Rao Saheb (Director, Actor)
- 1986: Shakuntala (director, actor) - TV film
- 1987: Sher Shivaji (actor)
- 1987: Hamidabai Ki Kothi (director, actor) - TV film
- 1987: Haveli Bulund Thi (director, actor) - TV film
- 1987: Pestonjee (director)
- 1991: Lifeline (actor) - TV series
- 2006: Quest (Actor)
theatre
- 1980: Kalidasa : Shakuntala (director) ( Schauspielhaus Leipzig )
Awards
- 1975: Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for her theater directing
- 1987: Padma Shri
- 1985: Best Supporting Actress at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival for her role in Party
- 1986: National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Rao Saheb
Web links
- Vijaya Mehta in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography (text mostly identical to that in Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema!)
Individual evidence
- ^ Abhijit Varde: Daughters of Maharashtra: Portraits of Women who are Building Maharastra: Interviews and Photographs , 1997, p. 87
- ↑ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1438265,prtpage-1.cms
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mehta, Vijaya |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mehta, Vijaya Farrokh; Jaywant, Vijaya (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian actress and director in theater and film |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baroda , Bombay |