Tollywood industry kolkata remembering Utpal Dutta on his 21st dead anniversary. Utpal Dutta (29 March 1929 – 19 August 1993) was an Indian actor, director, and writer-playwright. He was primarily an actor in Bengali theater, where he became a pioneering figure in Modern Indian theater, when he founded the Little Theater Group in 1947, which enacted many English, Shakespearean and Brecht plays, in a period now known as the Epic theater period, before immersing itself completely in highly political and radical theater. His plays became apt vehicle of the expression for his Marxist ideologies, visible in socio-political plays like, Kallol (1965), Manusher Adhikar, Louha Manob (1964), Tiner Toloar and Maha-Bidroha. He also acted over 100 Bengali and Hindi films in his career spanning 40 years, and remains most known for his roles in films like Mrinal Sen’s Bhuvan Shome (1969), Satyajit Ray’s Agantuk (1991), Gautam Ghose’s Padma Nadir Majhi (1993) and Hrishikesh Mukherjees breezy comedies such as Gol Maal (1979) and Rang Birangi (1983). He received National Film Award for Best Actor in 1970 and three Film fare Best Comedian Awards. In 1990, the Sangeet Natak Akademi, Indias National Academy of Music, Dance and Theater, awarded him its highest award the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship for lifetime contribution to theater.
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