Satish Alekar

                                     SATISH ALEKAR

Image result for satish alekar                      Satish Vasant Alekar  is a Marathi playwright, actor, and theatre director. A founder member of the Theatre Academy of Pune, and most known for his plays Mahanirvan , Mahapoor (1975), Atirekee (1990),and Begum Barve (1979), all of which he also directed for the Academy. Today, along with Mahesh Elkunchwar and Vijay Tendulkar he is one of the most influential and progressive playwrights not just in modern Marathi theatre, but also larger modern Indian theatre.
                    He has also remained the head of Centre for Performing Arts, University of Pune (1996–2009), which he founded, after forgoing the Directorship of NSD and previously remained an adjunct professor at Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University as a Fulbright Scholar.He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Play writing (Marathi) in 1994, by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama. He received the award "Padamshree"  conferred by the President of India in January 2012.
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                     Alekar was born in Delhi, India, but grew up in Pune, a center of Marathi culture in Maharashtra. Alekar gained his first stage experience as an actor in a college play. Impressed by his performance, director Bhalba Kelkar, who had set up the Progressive Dramatic Association, invited him to join it. Alekar wrote and directed his first one-act play Jhulta Pool in 1969. He became a part of a young circle that Jabbar Patel had started within the Progressive Dramatic Association. Alekar scripted the National Film Award winning Marathi feature film Jait Re Jait in 1977, directed by Jabbar Patel.Written a fortnightly column in Marathi for Sunday edition of Loksatta 'Gaganika' January–December 2015. Column is based on Satish Alekar's journey in to Performing Arts since 1965.He received the award "Padamshree" conferred by the President of India in January 2012.In December 2013 Satish Alekar received Balaraj Sahani Memorial Award in Pune for his contribution over last 40 years as a playwright, director and actor.In 2014 he was awarded Poet and Playwright "Aarati Prabhu Award" by Baba Vardam Theatres, Kudal, Dist. Sindhudurg.

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