Vijaya Mehta
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Mehta in 2012
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| Born |
Vijaya Jaywant 4 November 1934 Baroda, British India (present-day Gujarat, India) |
| Children | Anahita Uberoi |
| Awards | 1975 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award 1985 Asia Pacific Film Festival, Best Actress: Party 1986 National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress: Rao Saheb |
Vijaya Mehta (born 4 November 1934) is a noted Indian film and theatre director and also an actor in many films from the Parallel Cinema. She is a founder member of Mumbai-based theatre group, Rangayan with playwright Vijay Tendulkar, and actors Arvind Deshpande and Shreeram Lagoo. She is most known for her acclaimed role in film Party (1984) and for her directorial ventures, Rao Saheb (1986) and Pestonjee (1988). As the founder member of theatre group, Rangayan, she became a leading figure in the experimental Marathi theatre of the 1960s.
Vijaya Mehta was born Vijaya Jaywant in Baroda, Gujarat in 1934 in a CKP family. She graduated from Mumbai University. She studied theatre with Ebrahim Alkazi in Delhi and with Adi Marzban.
She became a major figure in 60s Marathi experimental theatre. She is a founder member of theatre group, Rangayan with playwright Vijay Tendulkar, Arvind Deshpande and Shreeram Lagoo.
Her stage production of C. T. Khanolkar's Ek Shoonya Bajirao is considered as a landmark in contemporary Indian theatre. She introduced Bertold Brecht into Marathi theatre with adaptation of The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Ajab Nyay Vartulacha), and Ionesco with Chairs.
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