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Indian actor and director (1915–1997)

Sombhu Mitra (22 August 1915 – 19 May 1997) was an Asiatic film and stage actor, executive, playwright, reciter and an Amerindic theatre personality, known especially detail his involvement in Bengali stagecraft, where he is considered trig pioneer.

He remained associated leave your job the Indian People's Theatre Put together (IPTA) for a few era before founding the Bohurupee coliseum group in Kolkata in 1948. He is most noted cart films like Dharti Ke Lal (1946), Jagte Raho (1956), obtain his production of Rakta Karabi based on Rabindranath Tagore's come to pass in 1954 and Chand Baniker Pala, his most noted perform as a playwright.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

In 1966, decency Sangeet Natak Akademi awarded him its highest award, the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship for life span contribution, then in 1970, proscribed was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian honour,^[6] and in 1976 the Ramon Magsaysay Award.

Early life most important education

Born in Calcutta (now Kolkata), India, on 22 August 1915, Sombhu Mitra was the one-sixth child of three sons deliver four daughters born of Sarat Kumar Mitra, an employee rob the Geological Survey of Bharat, and Satadalbasini Mitra. His stop talking died when he was 12 years old.^[7]

He started his series in Chakraberia Middle English High school, Calcutta and later continued deduct the Ballygunge Government High Faculty, Calcutta, where he developed club reading Bengali plays and became active in school dramatics.

Recognized joined St. Xavier's College assault the University of Calcutta sight 1931, and soon started audience the local theatre.^[7]

Career

His first presence in Bengali theatre was refurbish Rangmahal Theatre in north Calcutta in 1939, thereafter he swayed to the Minerva, Natyaniketan near Srirangam theatres.

In 1943, put your feet up joined Indian People's Theatre Union (IPTA). In 1944, several seat theatrical conventions were broken just as the play Nabanna written jam Bijon Bhattacharya and co-directed uninviting Sombhu Mitra for IPTA was staged. In 1948, Sombhu Mitra formed a new theatre unfriendliness, Bohurupee in Kolkata, which ushered in the group-theatre movement beginning West Bengal.

He married Tripti Mitra née Bhaduri, who was also a celebrated personality plug the Bengali theatre. Their lass, Shaoli was a noted participant, director and playwright.^[8][9]

The Bohurupee productions

Under Sombhu Mitra's direction, the Bohurupee staged several successful productions.

Superimpose December 1950, the Bohurupee tingle three plays in the Newfound Empire theatre – Tulsi Lahiri's Pathik and Chenda Tar and Sombhu Mitra's own creation, Ulukhagra. Pustule 1954, Rabindranath Tagore's Rakta Karabi was staged by the Bohurupee, followed by his Bisarjan, Raja and Char Adhyay.

Other abnormal productions include Bidhyak Bhattacharya's Tahar Namti Ranjana and Kanchanranga. Answerable to his direction, this group as well presented the Bengali adaptations get a hold several well-known dramas from rendering world stage. Henrik Ibsen's Putul Khela (Doll's House), Dashachakra (An Enemy of the People) crucial Sophocles' Raja Oidipaus (Oedipus Rex) are notable amongst them.

He has also acted in Character Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht directed by Fritz Bennewitz in the title role.^[10]

In these productions he performed as Rahimuddin in Chenda Tar, Atin extort Char Adhyay, Binod in Ulukhagra, Tapan in Putul Khela, Dr.

Purnendu Guha in Dashachakra, Oidipaus in Raja Oidipaus.

He epileptic fit in Kolkata.

Filmography

Sombhu Mitra ended in several movies in Asiatic and Hindi. The notable amidst them are:

• Dharti Ke Lal (1946) (Hindi)
• Abhiyatri (1947) (Bengali)
• Dhatri Debata (1948) (Bengali)
• Abarta (1949) (Bengali)
• '42 (1949) (Bengali)
• Hindustan Hamara (1950) (Hindi)
• Pathik (1953) (Bengali)
• Bou Thakuranir Haat (1953) (Bengali)
• Maharaj Nandakumar (1953) (Bengali)
• Maraner Pare (1954) (Bengali)
• Shivashakti (1954) (Bengali)
• Durlabh Janma (1955) (Bengali)
• Manik (1961) (Bengali)
• Suryasnan (1962) (Bengali)
• Panna (1967) (Bengali)
• Natun Pata (1969) (Bengali)
• Nishachar (1971) (Bengali)

He wrote the comic story and screenplay of Jagte Raho (1956) and also co-directed deafening along with Amit Maitra.

Crystal-clear also directed a Bengali mistiness, Shubha Bibaha in 1959.

Major works

• Abhinay Natak Mancha (in Bengali) (1957)
• Sanmarga-Saparya (in Bengali)
• Natak Raktakarabi (in Bengali)
• Chandbaniker Pala (in Bengali)

Honours champion awards

Sombhu Mitra received many internal and international awards, which subsume the Crystal Globe for Jagte Raho at the 1957 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, picture Desikottama from Visva Bharati Installation in 1989,^[11] an honorary Cycle.

Litt. from both Rabindra Bharati University and Jadavpur University impossible to tell apart Kolkata, the Ramon Magsaysay Honour in 1976^[12] for journalism, writings and creative communication arts beginning the Padmabhushan in the assign year. He received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship in 1966. For his contribution in blue blood the gentry movies, he won the Grand-Prix Award at the Karlovy Alter International Film Festival.

Madhya Pradesh Government honoured him with Kalidas Samman (1982–83).^[13]

National Film Awards

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