Vijaya Mehta

Vijaya Mehta
As Damyanti Rane, Party, 1984.
Born	Vijaya Jaywant 1934 Baroda, Gujarat
Awards won Other 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 is an Indian Theatre and film director and also an actor in many films from the Parallel Cinema. She is most known for her acclaimed role in film Party (1984) and for her directorial ventures, Rao Saheb (1986) and Pestonjee (1988).

Contents 1 Biography 2 Filmography 3 Awards 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

Biography

Vijaya Mehta was born in Baroda, Gujarat in 1934. She graduated from Bombay 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.

She was awarded the 1975 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for excellence in Direction, in 1986 she won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Rao Saheb

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.

She collaborated on Indo-German theatre projects with German director Fritz Bennewitz including a traditional performance of Bhasa's Mudrarakshasa with German actors. Except Pestonjee, most of her work consists of film and television adaptations of her stage plays.

Filmography

• Party (1984) - Actor
• Rao Saheb (1986) - Director, Screenwriter, Actor
• Pestonjee (1988) - Director, Screenwriter

Awards

• 1975 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
• 1985 Asia Pacific Film Festival: Best Actress: Party ^[1]
• 1986 National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress: Rao Saheb

See also

• Theatre in India

References

1. ^ Awards imdb.

External links

• Vijaya Mehta at the Internet Movie Database

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