Raja Thakur
| Raja Thakur | |
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| Born |
Rajaram Dattatraya Thakur November 26, 1923 Phonda, Goa, British India |
| Died | July 26, 1975 (aged 51) Pune, Maharashtra. |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Film director |
Raja Thakur (1923–1975) was an Indian film director predominantly working in Marathi film industry. He is best known for his films Me Tulas Tujhya Angani (1960), Rangalya Ratree Ashya (1962), Ektee (1968), Mumbaicha Jawai (1970), Gharkul (1971) and Jawai Vikat Ghene Aahe (1972); for which he won National and State-level awards.
Thakur was born in 1923 in Phonda near Kolhapur, Maharashtra. He started his film career as assistant to Master Vinayak and Raja Paranjape and directed various films in the 1960s based on storylines of middle-class Maharashtrian people. This genre was a repeated feature in directorial works of Thakur and Rajdutt, who dominated the industry then before the comedies of Dada Kondke became popular in the 1970s. He also produced films under his banner "Nav Chitra".
The 1955 released social film Me Tulas Tujhya Angani was produced under his banner Nav Chitra and had Hindustani classical music-based songs sung by Bhimsen Joshi. The film won the President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film at the 3rd National Film Awards. In continuation to the film adaptations of works written by Damuanna Malvankar and V. S. Jog which Master Vinayak made, Thakur directed the 1957 comedy Gharcha Jhala Thoda.
The 1962 Rangalya Ratree Ashya was a musical film based on the story written by author Ranjit Desai and starring Arun Sarnaik as a talented drummer who falls in love with a courtesan. The film won Thakur another President's Silver Medal at the 10th National Film Awards. Starring Kashinath Ghanekar, Thakur bagged his third National Film Award for Ektee (1968) at the 16th National Film Awards.
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