Vishnupant Govind Damle

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Vishnupant Govind Damle ( Marathi : विष्णुपंत गोविंद दामले Viṣṇupant Govind Dāmale ; born October 14, 1892 in Pen , Bombay , British India ; † July 5, 1945 in Pune ) was an Indian production designer , cameraman , film director and sound engineer for marathic films .

Life

Damle was born in the Raigad district in what is now the Indian state of Maharashtra . He learned the craft of stage painter from Anandrao Painter , a cousin of Baburao Painter , with whom he was one of the co-founders of the Maharashtra Film Company in 1918 . He worked there as a decorator, set designer, actor and cameraman and in film development. Sheikh Fattelal , with whom Damle worked closely until his death, was one of his colleagues . Together they made their directorial debut in 1928 with the silent film Maharathi Karna .

In 1929 Damle left the Maharashtra Film Company and founded the Prabhat Film Company with V. Shantaram , Fattelal, Keshavrao Dhaiber and Sitarampant Kulkarni . There he was the head of the sound department and introduced playback technology to Marathi-language films. Occasionally he also appeared as a producer, for example Shantarams Kunku (Marathi) / Duniya Na Mane (Hindi) (1937).

As a director at Prabhat, Damle made “holy” films with Fattelal, such as Sant Tukaram (1936), which was also shown at the 5th Venice Film Festival and received a special mention there. In his last film Sant Sakhu (1941), besides Fattelal, Raja Nene was also co-director. After Shantaram left Prabhat in 1942, Damle took over the management of the film company, but was unsuccessful.

Filmography (director)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Place of birth according to Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , p. 81; according to IMDb he was born in Alibag in the same district

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Damle, Vishnupant Govind
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian production designer, cameraman, film director and sound engineer of marathic film
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Pen , Bombay British India
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1945
Place of death Pune