Sudhir Bhat
| Sudhir Bhat | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1951 |
| Died | 14 November 2013 |
| Occupation | Producer |
| Years active | 1985–2013 |
Sudhir Bhat was an Indian Marathi play producer. he was the founder member of the famous play organisation "Suyog".
Bhat is one of the few commercially successful Marathi play producer and showcase them for a Marathi diaspora settled in the United States. He continued with this project for around three decades, during which he produced over 80 plays, which accounted for 17,000 shows. Eight of his plays crossed the 1000-shows mark. He is the record holder for producing highest number of plays in a career. He was a savvy businessman, unfazed by criticism. His company went on to stage several box-office hits.
Bhat formed an organisation named "Suyog" along with Gopal Algeri on 1 January 1985. He made all time record producing highest number of plays produced under one banner in Marathi play. He came into highlight against the play "Moruchi Mavashi". This was major hit at that time. Vijay Chavan, Vijay Patwardhan and Prashant Damle are some of the new actors produced with this play. He took the Marathi play outside India. His plays made shows in UK, United States and Europe and got enormous popularity over there. He handled the Marathi play very professionally and changed the definition of production that time. High production values, right marketing were the key of his success. Marathi play industry saw a down tern in the year 1997. His plays in America were a major boost during that time. He was the person who was thinking about Marathi plays for 24 hours a day
He was also criticized by many for making too many business transactions in the Marathi play allocation dates. He made loses in many plays but he did not left or change the business of producing the plays.
As the head of the Natya Nirmata Sangh (producers' association), he was the cynosure of many controversies. Many producers labelled him a 'contractor-producer', criticising his repertoire of commercially successful actors, particularly the faces that he usually banked on. Those include Prashant Damle, Vikram Gokhale, Kavita Lad, Dilip Prabhavalkar. He was absolutely unapologetic about his brand of theatre. He was very clear on his views regarding this. "To get people out of their houses to pay and watch a play is serious business and I do it very seriously," he had said in an interview.
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