Name any movie/s featuring Amol Palekar that you liked. Feel free to post any songs featuring him. . . . . . Happy Birthday to actor, director and producer of Hindi and Marathi cinema, Amol Palekar, on November 24th, 2014 as he reaches a landmark 70 years ! He was born on November 24th, 1944 to Kamlakar and Suhasini Palekar in a lower-middle-class family in Mumbai. He was raised by his father who worked in GPO and mother who worked in a private company along with his three sisters Neelon, Rekha and Unnati.He used to work in Bank of India before he switched full time to a career in acting. He did his postgraduation in Fine Arts from the Sir JJ School of Arts, Mumbai, commenced his artistic career as a painter which was distinguished by his seven one-man exhibitions along with his participation in many group shows. He has been a leading persona of avant garde theatre in India. He has been active in Marathi and Hindi theatre as an actor, director and producer since 1967. As a trend setting director who brought the theatre out of the proscenium arch, his productions still inspire the younger theatre practitioners. His stupendous contribution to the modern Indian theatre often gets overshadowed because of his enormous popularity as a lovable lead actor in Hindi films. Palekar made his debut in 1971 with the noted Marathi film Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe directed by Satyadev Dubey, which started the ‘New Cinema’ Movement in Marathi.He began in Marathi experimental theatre also with Satyadev Dubey, and later started his own group, Aniket, in 1972. In 1974 he was cast as an actor by Basu Chatterjee in Rajnigandha, and a surprise low-budget hit, Chhoti Si Baat. This led to many other such roles in middle-class comedies, mostly alternative cinema. These were often directed by Chatterjee or Hrishikesh Mukherjee and include such films as Gol Maal and Naram Garam. He won the Filmfare Best Actor Award for Gol Maal. He is noted for his image of the middle-class everyman who struggles to get a job (Gol-Maal), his own flat (Gharonda), a girlfriend/wife (Baaton Baaton Mein), and appreciation from his boss. Every common man could identify Amol Palekars onscreen character as being one of them in real life. He did not act in any movies with fighting scenes in the 1970s,when almost every movie needed to have that ingredient for its success.In 1982 he played the role of Ravi in the Malayalam movie Olangal, which is remade in Hindi as Masoom. As an actor, he ruled the silver screen for over a decade from 1970. His charming image as a ‘boy next door’ carved an unparallel niche in contrast to the larger than life heroes prevalent at that time in Indian cinema. He received three Film Fare and six State awards as Best Actor. His performances in regional language films in Marathi, Bengali, Malyalam and Kannada fetched him tremendous critical acclaim as well. While choosing to concentrate on filmmaking, he decided not to act after 1986. As a director ,he is specially known for the sensitive portrayal of women, selection of classic stories from Indian literature, and perceptive handling of progressive issues. His direction of television serials on the national network such as “Kachchi Dhoop”, “Mrignayani”, “Naquab”, “Paool Khuna” and Krishna Kali were exceptionally admired throughout the country.He had turned to directing with the Marathi film Aakriet. He showed his capabilities as a director with his movie Paheli which was Indias official entry in the race for Best Foreign Film at the 2006 Oscars. The movie, however, did not make it to the final nominations.He has also given his voice to an HIV/AIDS education animated software tutorial created by the nonprofit organization TeachAIDS. He has two daughters and is married to Sandhya Gokhale, who is a writer after his divorce from his first wife Chitra Palekar and he regards himself as an atheist. His unique style of saying Sir , onscreen will always be remembered. Wishing him all the success in whatever he pursues in the future.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 00:20:38 +0000
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