Utpal Dutt (; 29 March 1929 – 19 August 1993) was an Indian actor, director, and writer-playwright. He was primarily an actor in Bengali theatre, where he became a pioneering figure in Modern Indian theatre, when he founded the "Little Theatre Group" in 1949. This group enacted many English, Shakespearean and Brecht plays, in a period now known as the "Epic theatre" period, before it immersed itself completely in highly political and radical theatre. His plays became an apt vehicle for the expression of his Marxist ideologies, visible in socio-political plays such as ''Kallol'' (1965), ''Manusher Adhikar'', ''Louha Manob'' (1964), ''Tiner Toloar'' and ''Maha-Bidroha''. He also acted in over 100 Bengali and

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films in a career spanning 40 years, and remains most known for his roles in films such as

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’s ''

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'' (1969),

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’s '' Agantuk'' (1991), Gautam Ghose’s '' Padma Nadir Majhi'' (1992) and

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's breezy Hindi comedies such as '' Gol Maal'' (1979) and '' Rang Birangi'' (1983).Inside the actor's mind

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, 3 July 2009.Remembering Utpal Dutt
Shoma A Chatterji,

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, 20 August 2004.Stage On & Off: Man in iron mask
The Telegraph (Kolkata), 26 August 2006. He also did the role of a sculptor, Sir Digindra Narayan, in the episode ''Seemant Heera'' of Byomkesh Bakshi (TV series) on

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in 1993, shortly before his death. He received National Film Award for Best Actor in 1970 and three Filmfare Best Comedian Awards. In 1990, the

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, India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Theatre, awarded him its highest award, the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship for lifetime contribution to theatre.

Early life and education

Utpal Dutta was born into a Bengali family on 29 March 1929 in

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. His father was Girijaranjan Dutta. After initial schooling at St. Edmund's School, Shillong, he completed Matriculation from St. Xavier's Collegiate School,

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in 1945. He graduated with English Literature Honours from St. Xavier's College, Calcutta,

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in 1949.

Career

Though he was active primarily in Bengali theatre, he started his career in English theatre. As a teenager in the 1940s, he developed his passion and craft in English theatre, which resulted in the establishment of "The Shakespeareans" in 1947. Its first performance was a powerful production of Shakespeare's

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, with Dutt playing the king. This so impressed Geoffrey Kendal and Laura Kendal (parents of the actress Jennifer Kendal), who led the itinerant "Shakespeareana Theatre Company", that they immediately hired him, and he did two year-long tours with them across India and Pakistan, enacting Shakespeare's plays, first 1947–49 and later 1953–54; and was acclaimed for his passionate portrayal of

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. After the Kendals left India for the first time in 1949, Utpal Dutt renamed his group the "Little Theatre Group" (LTG), and over the next three years, continued to perform and produce plays by Ibsen, Shaw, Tagore, Gorky and Konstantin Simonov. The group later decided to stage exclusively Bengali plays and to eventually evolve into a production company that would produce several Bengali movies. He also remained an active member of '' Gananatya Sangha'', which performed through rural areas of West Bengal. He was also a founding member of Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA), an organisation known for its leftist leaning, but left it after a couple of years, when he started his theatre group. He wrote and directed what he called "Epic Theatre", a term he borrowed from

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, to bring about discussion and change in Bengal. His Brecht Society, formed in 1948, was presided by Satyajit Ray. He became one of the most influential personalities in the Group Theatre movement. While accepting Brecht's belief of the audience being "co-authors" of the theatre, he rejected orthodoxies of "Epic theatre" as being impractical in India.Utpal Dutt
'Theatres of independence: drama, theory, and urban performance in India since 1947:Studies in theatre history and culture'' by Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker. University of Iowa Press, 2005. . ''Page 114'' He also remained a teacher of English at the South Point School in Kolkata. Soon he would turn to his native Bengali, producing translations of several Shakespearean tragedies and the works of Russian classicists into Bengali. Starting in 1954, he wrote and directed controversial Bengali political plays, and also

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's ''Lower Depths'' in Bengali in 1957. In 1959, the LTG secured the lease of Minerva Theatre, Kolkata, where most notably ''Angar'' (Coal) (1959), based on the exploitation of coal-miners was showcased. For the next decade the group staged several plays here, with him as an impresario, and he still is remembered as one of the last pioneering actor-managers of Indian theatre. He also formed groups like ''Arjo Opera'' and ''Bibek Yatra Samaj''. Meanwhile, his transition to films happened while performing the role of

, when famous filmmaker Madhu Bose happened to be watching, and gave him the lead in his film ''Michael Madhusudan'' (1950), based on the life of the revolutionary Indian poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt. Later, he himself wrote a play on the fragmented colonial psyche of Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and the ambivalence of swaying between "colonial" admiration and "anti-colonial" revolt. He went on to act in many Bengali films, including many films by

. Dutt was also an extremely famous comic actor in

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, though he acted in only a handful of Hindi films. He acted in comedy movies, the most notable ones being '' Guddi'', '' Gol Maal'', '' Naram Garam'', '' Rang Birangi'' and '' Shaukeen''. He received Filmfare Best Comedian Award for ''Golmaal'', ''Naram Garam'' and ''Rang Birangi''. He appeared in ''

'', (for which he was awarded the

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for Best Actor), ''Ek Adhuri Kahani'' and ''Chorus'', all by

; '' Agantuk'', '' Jana Aranya'', '' Joi Baba Felunath'' and '' Hirak Rajar Deshe'', by

; ''Paar'' and '' Padma Nadir Majhi'', by Gautam Ghose; '' Bombay Talkie'', '' The Guru'', and '' Shakespeare Wallah'', by James Ivory; '' Jukti Takko Aar Gappo'', by

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; '' Guddi'', '' Gol Maal'' and '' Kotwal Saab'' by

; '' Shaukeen'', '' Priyatama'' and '' Hamari Bahu Alka'' directed by Basu Chatterjee and '' Amanush'', '' Anand Ashram'' and '' Barsaat Ki Ek Raat'' by

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. Utpal Dutt also played the main villain characters in some of the major successful

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starrers such as The Great Gambler, Inquilaab (film) and the bilingual Hindi/Bangla movie Barsaat Ki Ek Raat. In fact, Utpal Dutt was the Hero (main lead) in Amitabh Bachchan's maiden venture Saat Hindustani. Dutt was also a lifelong Marxist and an active supporter of the

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, and his leftist "Revolutionary Theatre" was a phenomenon in the contemporary Bengali theatre. He staged many street dramas in favour of the Communist Party. He was jailed by the

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government in West Bengal in 1965 and detained for several months, as the then state government feared that the subversive message of his play ''Kallol'' (Sound of the Waves), (based on the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny of 1946, which ran packed shows at Calcutta's Minerva Theatre), might provoke anti-government protests in West Bengal. The play turned out to be his longest-running play at the Minerva. ''Manusher Adhikare'' (Of People's Rights) in 1968, staged as a documentary drama, was a new genre in Bengali theatre before, though it turned out to be his last production of the group at the Minerva, as they soon left the theatre. Thereafter, the group was given the name the "People's Little Theatre"; as it took on yet another new direction, his work came closer to the people, and this phase played an important role in popularising Indian street theatre, as he started performing at street-corners or "poster" plays, in open spaces, without any aid or embellishment, before enormous crowds. The year also marked his transition into '' Jatra'' or ''Yatra Pala'', a Bengali folk drama form, performed largely across rural West Bengal. He started writing Jatra scripts, produced and acted in them, even formed his own Jatra troupe. His jatra political dramas were often produced on open-air stages and symbolised his commitment to communist ideology, and today form his lasting legacy. Through the 1970s three of his plays; ''Barricade'', ''Dusswapner Nagari'' (City of Nightmares) and ''Ebaar Rajar Pala'' (Now it is the King's turn), drew crowds despite being officially banned. He wrote ''Louha Manab'' (The Iron Man), in 1964 while still in jail, based on a real trial against a pro-Stalin, ex-Politburo member by supporters of

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in Moscow of 1963. It was first staged at Alipore Jail in 1965, by the People's Little Theatre. His stay in jail unleashed a new period of rebellious and politically charged plays, including ''Tiner Toloar'' (The Tin Sword), partially based on '' Pygmalion'', ''Dushapner Nagari'' (Nightmare City), ''Manusher Odhikare'' (Rights Of Man), based on the

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case, protests against the racial discrimination and injustice of the Scottsborough trial of 1931, ''Surya-Shikar'' (Hunting the Sun) (1978), ''Maha-Bidroha'' (The Great Rebellion) (1989), and ''Laal Durgo'' (Red Fort) (1990) about the demise of Communism, set in a fictitious East European country, and ''Janatar Aphim'' (Opiate of the People), (1990) lamented on Indian political parties exploiting religion for gain. In all, he wrote twenty-two full-length plays, fifteen poster plays, nineteen Jatra scripts, acted in thousands of shows, and directed more than sixty productions, apart from writing serious studies of Shakespeare, Girish Ghosh, Stanislavsky, Brecht, and revolutionary theatre, and translating Shakespeare and Brecht. He also directed a number of films such as ''Megh'' (1961), a psychological thriller, ''Ghoom Bhangar Gaan'' (1965), ''Jhar'' (Storm) (1979), based on the Young Bengal movement, ''Baisakhi Megh'' (1981), ''Maa'' (1983) and ''Inquilab Ke Baad'' (1984).

Legacy

Forty years after the staging of the classic play ''Kallol'' which entails the story of the mutiny of Indian sailors against the British on the Arabian Sea, for which he was even imprisoned, was revived in 2005, as ''Gangabokshe Kallol'', part of the state-funded "Utpal Dutt Natyotsav" (Utpal Dutt Theatre Festival), on an off-shore stage, by the

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in Kolkata. '' The Last Lear'', the 2007 English film based on his play ''Aajker Shahjahan'', on an eccentric

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an actor, and directed for the screen by

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, later won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English.

Personal life

In 1960, Dutt married theatre and film actress Shobha Sen. Their only daughter, Bishnupriya Dutt, is a professor of Theatre & Performance studies at the School of Arts & Aesthetics at

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Death

On 19 August 1993, Dutt died due to a heart attack right after he returned home from the S.S.K.M hospital,

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, West Bengal where he had undergone dialysis.

Awards and recognition

* 1990 Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship for lifetime contribution to theatre * * * *

Filmography

This is an incomplete filmography of Utpal Dutt. * '' Michael Madhusudhan'' (1950) * '' Vidyasagar'' (1950) * '' Vikram Urvashi'' (1954) * '' Rani Rasmani'' (1955) * ''

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'' (1955) * '' Taka Ana Pay'' (1956) * '' Subhalagna'' (1956) * '' Harano Sur'' (1957) * '' Saptapadi'' (1961) (voice) * '' Rakta Palash'' (1962) * '' Shesh Anka'' (1963) * '' Surya Sikha'' (1963) * '' Momer Alo'' (1964) * '' Shakespeare-Wallah'' (1965) * ''

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'' (1968) * '' The Guru'' (1969) * ''

'' (1969) * '' Saat Hindustani'' (1969) * '' Bombay Talkie'' (1970) * '' Kalankita Nayak'' (1970) * '' Calcutta 71'' (1971) * '' Guddi'' (1971) * '' Khunjey Berai'' (1971) * '' Ek Adhuri Kahani'' (1972) * '' Mere Jeevan Saathi'' (1972) * ''

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'' (1972) * ''

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'' (1973) * '' Marjina Abdulla'' (1973) * '' Shriman Prithviraj'' (1973) * '' Asati'' (1974) * ''

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'' (1974) * '' Mr. Romeo'' (1974) * '' Jukti, Takko Aar Gappo'' (1974) * '' Thagini'' (1974) * '' Amanush'' (1975) * '' Julie'' (1975) * '' Anari'' (1975) * '' Palanka'' (1975) * '' Jana Aranya'' (1976) * '' Datta'' (1976) * '' Do Anjaane'' (1976) * '' Suntan'' (1976) * '' Sei Chokh'' (1976) * '' Shaque'' (1976) * '' Kotwal Saab'' (1977) * '' Yehi Hai Zindagi'' (1977) * '' Immaan Dharam'' (1977) as Balbir Singh, Military Man * '' Anand Ashram'' (1977) * '' Anurodh'' (1977) * '' Dulhan Wahi Jo Piya Man Bhaaye'' (1977) * '' Ek Hi Raasta'' * '' Farishta Ya Qatil'' (1977) * '' Kissa Kursi Ka'' (1977) * '' Priyatama'' (1977) * ''

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'' (1977) * '' Atithee'' (1978) * '' Striker'' (1978) * '' Safed Haathi'' (1978) * '' Bandie'' (1978) * '' Dhanraj Tamang'' (1978) * '' Joi Baba Felunath'' (1978) * '' Toote Khilone'' (1978) * '' Kartavya'' (1979) as Dewan Dhanpati Rai * '' Gol Maal'' (1979) * '' The Great Gambler'' (1979) * '' Jharh'' (1979) * '' Prem Vivah'' (1979) * ''

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'' (1980) * '' Hirak Rajar Deshe'' (1980) * '' Paka Dekha'' (1980) * '' Apne Paraye'' (1980) * '' Ram Balram'' (1980) * '' Agni Pareeksha'' (1981) * '' Naram Garam'' (1981) * '' Barsaat Ki Ek Raat'' (1981) aka Anusandhan (India: Bengali title) * '' Chaalchitra'' (1981) * '' Meghmukti'' (1981) * '' Subarna Golak'' (1981) * '' Shaukeen'' (1981) * '' Baisakhi Megh'' (1981) as Colonel Manningham * '' Rajbadhu'' (1982) * '' Raaste Pyar Ke'' (1982) * '' Hamari Bahu Alka'' (1982) * '' Angoor'' (1982) * ''

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'' (1983) * '' Rang Birangi'' (1983) * '' Duti Pata'' (1983) * '' Kissi Se Na Kehna'' (1983) * '' Pasand Apni Apni'' (1983) * '' Shubh Kaamna'' (1983) * ''

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'' (1984) * '' John Jani Janardhan'' (1984) * '' Lakhon Ki Baat'' (1984) * '' Inquilaab'' (1984) * '' Paar'' (1984) * '' Yeh Desh'' (1984) * '' Saaheb'' (1985) * '' Harishchandra Shaibya'' (1985) * ''

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'' (1985) * '' Anyay Abichar'' (1985) * '' Ulta Seedha'' (1985) * ''

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'' (1986) * '' Baat Ban Jaye'' (1986) * '' Kirayadar'' (1986) * '' Main Balwan'' (1986) * '' Pathbhola'' (1986) * '' Sadaa Suhagan'' (1986) * ''

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'' (1986–1987, TV series) * ''

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'' (1987) * '' Aaj Ka Robin Hood'' (1987) * '' Asha O Bhalobasha'' (1988) * '' Mahaveera'' (1988) * '' La Nuit Bengali'' (1988) * '' Aakrosh'' (1989) * '' Bahurani'' (1989) * '' Jawani Zindabad'' (1990) * '' Mera Pati Sirf Mera Hai'' (1990) * '' Agantuk'' (1991) * '' Jaan Pechaan'' (1991) * '' Path-o-Prasad'' (1991) * '' Padma Nadir Majhi'' (1992) * ''

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'' (1993) * '' Misti Madhur'' (1993) * '' Ajana Path'' (1994) * '' Mera Damad'' (1995) His last movie released after 2 years of his death.

Plays

*''Mirkassim'' *''Tiner Talowar'' *'' Ferari Fauj'' *''Boniker Rajdando'' *''

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'' *'' Chayanat'' *''Kangor Karagare'' *'' Kallol'' *''Ongaar'' *''Aajker Shahjahan'' *''Lohaar Bheem'' *''Mahusher Adhikarey'' *''Ebar Rajar Pala'' *''Danrao Pathikbar''

Works

* ''Girish Chandra Ghosh''.

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Publications. 1992.
Excerpts
* The Great Rebellion, 1857 (''Mahabidroha''), Seagull Books, 1986. . * ''On Theatre'', Seagull Books. 2009. . * ''Towards A Revolutionary Theatre''. Seagull Books, 2009. . * ''On Cinema''. Seagull Books, 2009. . * Acted in Byomkesh Bakshi Episode 3: Seemant Heera * ''Rights Of Man'' (''Manusher Adhikare''). Seagull Books, 2009. . * ''3 Plays''. Seagull Books, 2009. . *Gadya Sangraha, Volume1, 1998 & Volume 2,2011, Dey's Publishing *Encore (Theater Stories selected and translated by Utpal Dutta), Deep Prakashan *Sahhensha Tomar Puraskar Tomar-i Thak (A Collection of Poems by Utpal Dutta), Deep Prakshan

References

External links

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