Uttara Baokar
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Uttara Baokar is an Indian stage, film and television actress. She acted in several notable plays, like 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.[1] In 1978, she also directed Jaywant Dalvi's play Sandhya Chhaya, in Hindi translation by Kusum Kumar.[2]
Uttara Baokar | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1968–present |
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In 1984, she won the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, India's National Academy for Acting (Hindi theatre).[3] She has also appeared in Marathi films like Doghi (1995) with Sadashiv Amrapurkar and Renuka Daftardar, Uttarayan (2005), Shevri (2006) and Restaurant (2006), with Sonali Kulkarni.[4]
Early life and educationEdit
Uttara studied acting at National School of Drama (NSD), Delhi, under Ebrahim Alkazi,[5] graduating in 1968.[6]
FilmographyEdit
- Yatra (1986)
- Tamas (1987)
- Ek Din Achanak (1989)
- Udaan (TV series) (1990–1991)
- Rukmavati Ki Haveli (1991)
- The Burning Season (1993)
- Doghi (1995) (Marathi)
- Sardari Begum (1996)
- Thakshak (1999)
- Antaral (TV series) (2000)
- Zindagi Zindabad (2000)
- Kora Kaagaz (2002)
- Vaastupurush (2002) (Marathi)
- Nazarana (2002) (TV series)
- Uttarayan (2003) (Marathi)
- Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin (TV series) (2003–2006)
- Shevri (Marathi Film) (2006)
- Kashmakash Zindagi Ki (TV series) (2006–2009)
- Jabb Love Hua (TV series) (2006–2007)
- Restaurant[7] (2006) (Marathi)
- Rishtey (TV series) (Season 2)
- Sins (2005)
- Hum Ko Deewana Kar Gaye (2006)[8]
- Dor (2006)
- Aaja Nachle (2007)
- 8 x 10 Tasveer (2009)
- Ha Bharat Maza (2011) (Marathi)
- Samhita (2013) (Marathi)
- Ekkees Toppon Ki Salaami (2014) as Politician's mother
- Dev Bhoomi - Land of the Gods (2015) as Priya (Rahul Negi's sister)
AwardsEdit
- 1984 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Acting (Hindi theatre).[3]
- 1988 National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for Ek Din Achanak
NotesEdit
- ↑ "Of days that were..." The Hindu. 30 June 2005. Archived from the original on 6 November 2012.
- ↑ "Those lonely sunset days". The Hindu. 23 April 2010.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "SNA: List of Akademi Awardees". Sangeet Natak Akademi Official website. Archived from the original on 17 February 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
- ↑ "Marathi cinema gets the sensitive and intelligent film-lover". The Economic Times. 3 May 2008.
- ↑ "Theatre is revelation". The Hindu. 24 February 2008. Archived from the original on 2 March 2008.
- ↑ "Alumni List For The Year 1968". National School of Drama Official website.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Filmography
ReferencesEdit
- Nash, Jay Robert; Nash, Stanley Ralph; Ross, Stanley Ralph (1987). The Motion Picture Guide ... Annual. Cinebooks. ISBN 0-933997-16-7.
- Brandon, James R.; Martin Banham (1997). The Cambridge guide to Asian theatre. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-58822-7.
- Subramanyam, Lakshmi (2002). Muffled voices: women in modern Indian theatre. Har-Anand Publications. ISBN 81-241-0870-6.
- Trivedi, Poonam; Dennis Bartholomeusz (2005). India's Shakespeare: translation, interpretation, and performance International studies in Shakespeare and his contemporaries. University of Delaware Press. ISBN 0-87413-881-7.