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Satish Vasant Alekar (born 30 January 1949 [1]) is a Marathi playwright, actor, and theatre director. A founder member of the Theatre Academy of Pune, and most known for his plays Mahanirvan (1974), Mahapoor (1975), Atirekee (1990), Pidhijat (2003), Mickey ani Memsahib (1973), and Begum Barve (1979), all of which he also directed for the Academy.
Satish Alekar is an Indian playwright, actor, and theatre director who mostly works in the Marathi film and theatre industry. A few months after his birth, his family shifted to Pune, a centre of Marathi culture in Maharashtra.
Satish Alekar was able to make a lifetime of work out of the tiniest patch of the earth just because of his encyclopedic knowledge about Pune.
Satish Vasant Alekar, [1] better known as Satish Alekar, is an Indian actor, theatre director, and playwright who mainly works in the Marathi film and theatre industry. He is best known for his Marathi plays Mahanirvan (1974), Mahapoor (1975), Atirekee (1990), Pidhijat (2003), Micky ani Memsahib (1973), and Begum Barve (1979). Wiki/Biography.
May 2, 2024 · Satish Alekar, among India’s most powerful playwrights, will have a new work being staged within a week – and it is entirely coincidental that the theme is the political and social changes that have taken place in the country since 2014.
Satish Alekar born in New Delhi but raised in City of Pune, Maharashtra. He completed his M.Sc. with Bio Chemistry in 1972 from University of Pune. He is more known as a playwright, director and stage actor since 1973. He is one of the founder members of Theatre Academy, Pune.
Jun 25, 2023 · Pune-based Satish Alekar was one of those who broke away from the Progressive Dramatics Association (PDA), founded by Dr Shriram Lagoo and Bhalba Kelkar in 1952, with the entire cast of “Ghashiram Kotwal”.
Jun 14, 2019 · ‘A totally modern man’: playwright Satish Alekar remembers Girish Karnad ‘With his passing, we have lost the last of the four giants who created modern Indian theatre as we know it ...
Jan 7, 2021 · Mahanirvan — The Dread Departure, written and directed by Satish Alekar, is a black comedy that revolves around a dead man and his family as they go about the last rites. It was still being performed in 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic closed all theatres and death acquired a whole new darkness in the months that followed.
Senior theatre artist Satish Alekar is one such talented writer, director and actor who is always ready to experiment with his plays. Although he first encountered theatre as a child, the story of his actual entry in the world of theatre is quite intriguing.
