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Vijaya Mehta
Mehta in 2012
Born
Vijaya Jaywant
(1934-11-04) 4 November 1934 (age 89)
Baroda, Baroda State, British India (present-day Vadodara, Gujarat, India)
Spouse(s)
Harin Khote (died) Farrokh Mehta
Children
Anahita Uberoi
Awards
1975 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award 1985 Asia Pacific Film Festival, Best Actress: Party 1986 National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress: Rao Saheb
Vijaya Mehta (born 4 November 1934),[1] is a noted Indian Marathi film and theatre director and also an actor in many films from the Parallel Cinema. She is a founder member of Mumbai-based theatre group, Rangayan with playwright Vijay Tendulkar, and actors Arvind Deshpande and Shriram Lagoo. She is most known for her acclaimed role in film Party (1984) and for her directorial ventures, Rao Saheb (1986) and Pestonjee (1988). As the founder member of theatre group, Rangayan, she became a leading figure in the experimental Marathi theatre of the 1960s.[2]
^Abhijit Varde: Daughters of Maharashtra: Portraits of Women who are Building Maharastra : Interviews and Photographs, 1997, p. 87
^"The return of Desdemona". Mumbai Mirror. 25 January 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
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