Pandit satyadev dubey biography sample

Indian actor, director and playwright (1936-2011)

Satyadev Dubey (13 July 1936^[1] – 25 December 2011)^[2] was an Indian theatre director, actor, playwright, screenwriter & film director.

Bhumika

He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1971.^[3]

He won the 1978 National Film Award for Best Screenplay for Shyam Benegal's Bhumika and 1980 Filmfare Best Dialogue Award for Junoon. In 2011, he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India.

Biography

Satyadev Dubey was born in Bilaspur now in Chhattisgarh in 1936.

He moved to Mumbai with the aim of becoming a cricketer, but ended up joining the Theatre Unit, a theatre group run by Ebrahim Alkazi, which also ran a school for many budding artists. Later when Alkazi left for Delhi to head the National School of Drama, Dubey took over Theatre Unit, and went on to produce many important plays in the Indian theatre.

He produced Girish Karnad's first play Ya