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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Vishwanath Chintamani Bedekar<br />
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| native_name_lang = [[Marathi]]<br />
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1906|8|13}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Amravati]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1998|10|30|1906|8|13|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Pune]], [[Maharashtra]], India<br />
| nationality = [[Presidencies and provinces of British India|British Indian]] {{small|(1906–1947)}}<br>[[Indian people|Indian]] {{small|(1947–1998)}}<br />
| other_names = Vishram Bedekar<br />
| children = Shrikant Bedekar<br />
| spouse = [[Malati Bedekar]]<br />
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'''Vishwanath Chintamani Bedekar''' (1906–1998), who professionally used the name '''Vishram Bedekar''', was an [[India]]n [[Marathi-language]] writer and film director.<br />
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Bedekar was born on August 13, 1906 in [[Amravati]]. After receiving his college degree in Amravati, he went to [[Nagpur]] for his post-graduate studies. During his college days, he was drawn to English literature and theater. He moved to [[Pune]] in the 1930s. In 1938, he married [[Malati Bedekar]], (whose maiden name was Balutai Khare).<ref>{{cite book<br />
| title = Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the early twentieth century<br />
| publisher = Feminist Press at CUNY<br />
| year= 1991<br />
| isbn = 9781558610279<br />
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=u297RJP9gvwC&q=Vibhavari+Shirurkar+bedekar&pg=PA426}}</ref><br />
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==Literary work==<br />
Bedekar wrote his only novel ''Ranangan'' in 1939. It portrayed romantic love between an Indian youth and a German Jewish girl against the backdrop of World War II, and created a storm in literary circles in his times, and was translated into English in 2021. The novel was based on Bedekar’s own experience on an ocean voyage in 1938 from Europe to India in which he encountered a number of Jews fleeing German persecution.<ref>Reciprocal Misapprehensions: Jews on Non Jews, and Non Jews on Jews in Indian Fiction, by Dr. Navras Jaat Aafreedi, The Journal of Indo Judaic Studies</ref> Bedekar received in 1985 a [[List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Marathi|Sahitya Akademi Award]] for his autobiographical ''Ek Jhad Ani Don Pakshi''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Akademi Awards (1955-2015)|url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/awards/akademi%20samman_suchi.jsp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304084937/http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/awards/akademi%20samman_suchi.jsp|archive-date=4 March 2016|publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]]|access-date=2 September 2016}}</ref> He presided over [[Marathi Sahitya Sammelan]] in [[Mumbai|Bombay]] in 1988.<br />
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Bedekar wrote several plays:<br />
* ''Brahma Kumari'' (A mythological play with contemporary relevance)<br />
* ''Naro Wa Kunjaro Wa''<br />
* ''Waje Paul Apule''<br />
* ''Tilak Ani Agarkar''<br />
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The last play depicted the emotional and intellectual conflict between [[Bal Gangadhar Tilak]] and [[Gopal Ganesh Agarkar]].<br />
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==Movie Direction==<br />
Bedekar took a course in cinematography in the U.K. He directed many Marathi and [[Hindi]] films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report-when-salim-khan-was-offered-role-of-bajirao-in-the-50-s-2158032|title=When Salim Khan was offered role of Bajirao... in the 50s|date=21 December 2015|access-date=2 September 2016}}</ref> Few of the notable movies are :<br />
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* ''Thakiche Lagna''<br />
* ''Satyache Prayog''<br />
* ''Vasudeo Balwant''<br />
* ''Naradnardi''<br />
* ''Krushnarjun Yuddha''<br />
* ''Chool Ani Mool''<br />
* ''Ramshastri''<br />
* ''Pahila Palna''<br />
* ''Andheri Duniya'' (Hindi) (1936)<br />
* ''Lakharani'' (Hindi) (1945)<br />
* ''Talaash'' (Hindi) 1957<br />
* ''Do Bhai'' (Hindi) (1961)<br />
* [[Rustam Sohrab|''Rustom Sohrab'']] (Hindi) (1963)<br />
* ''[[Ek Nanhi Munni Ladki Thi]]'' (Hindi) (1970)<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070929123247/http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19981031/30451124.html Vishram Bedekar passes away]<br />
* [https://www.speakingtigerbooks.com/Battlefield Battlefield by Vishram Bedekar, tr. by Jerry Pinto]<br />
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[[Category:Marathi-language writers]]<br />
[[Category:People from Amravati]]<br />
[[Category:1906 births]]<br />
[[Category:1998 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Marathi]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian poets]]<br />
[[Category:Poets from Maharashtra]]<br />
[[Category:Indian male poets]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian male writers]]<br />
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