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Uttara Baokar

Uttara Baokar
उत्तरा बाओकर
Director, Unni Vijayan Producer Prince Thampi at the presentation of film " Lesson in Forgetting", at the 43rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI-2012), in Panaji, Goa on November 25, 2012.jpg
Baokar (right) at IFFI 2012
Born5 August 1944
Kolhapur, Kolhapur State, British India
Died12 April 2023(2023-04-12) (aged 78)
Pune, Maharashtra, India
OccupationActress
Years active1968–2023

Uttara Baokar (5 August 1944 – 12 April 2023)[1] was an Indian stage, film, and television actress. She acted in several notable plays, such as Padmavati in Mukyhamantri, Mena in Mena Gurjari, Desdemona in Shakespeare's Othello, the mother in playwright Girish Karnad's Tughlaq, the nautch girl in Chhote Saiyad Bade Saiyad, and the lead role of Umrao in Umrao Jaan.[2] In 1978, she directed Jaywant Dalvi's play Sandhya Chhaya, translated to Hindi by Kusum Kumar.[3]

In 1984, she won the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Acting (Hindi theatre).[4] She appeared in Marathi films such as Doghi (1995) with Sadashiv Amrapurkar and Renuka Daftardar, Uttarayan (2005), Shevri (2006), and Restaurant (2006) with Sonali Kulkarni.[5]

Early life and education

Uttara studied acting at National School of Drama (NSD),[6] Delhi, under Ebrahim Alkazi,[7] graduating in 1968.[8]

Filmography

Awards

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Notes

  1. ^ "National Award-winning actress Uttara Baokar passes away at 79". The Times of India. 12 April 2023. Archived from the original on 13 April 2023. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  2. ^ "Of days that were..." The Hindu. 30 June 2005. Archived from the original on 6 November 2012.
  3. ^ "Those lonely sunset days". The Hindu. 23 April 2010. Archived from the original on 12 March 2014. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
  4. ^ a b "SNA: List of Akademi Awardees". Sangeet Natak Akademi Official website. Archived from the original on 17 February 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  5. ^ "Marathi cinema gets the sensitive and intelligent film-lover". The Economic Times. 3 May 2008. Archived from the original on 30 June 2018. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
  6. ^ "'A remarkable human being': Neena Kulkarni, Manoj Joshi remember late actress Uttara Baokar on social media". The Economic Times. 13 April 2023. Archived from the original on 13 April 2023. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  7. ^ "Theatre is revelation". The Hindu. 24 February 2008. Archived from the original on 2 March 2008.
  8. ^ "Alumni List For The Year 1968". National School of Drama Official website. Archived from the original on 6 December 2010. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
  9. ^ K. Moti Gokulsing; Wimal Dissanayake (17 April 2013). Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas. Routledge. pp. 77–. ISBN 978-1-136-77284-9. Retrieved 4 May 2013.

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