Dilip Chitre

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Dilip Purushottam Chitre (17 September 1938 – 10 December 2009) was one of the foremost Indian poets and critics to emerge in the post Independence India. Apart from being a notable bilingual writer, writing in Marathi and English, he was also a teacher, a painter, a filmmaker and a magazine columnist.

Biography

Chitre was born in

After a long bout with cancer, Dilip Chitre died at his residence in Pune on 10 December 2009.^[2]

Works

Poetry

Chitre was a bilingual writer, but wrote mostly in Marathi. His Ekun Kavita or Collected Poems were published in the 1990s in three volumes. As Is, Where Is selected English poems (1964–2007) and "Shesha" English translation of selected Marathi poems, both published by Poetrywala, were published in 2007. He also edited An Anthology of Marathi Poetry (1945–1965).^{[citation needed]} He was an accomplished translator of prose and poetry. His most famous translation was of the celebrated 17th century Marathi bhakti poet Tukaram (published as Says Tuka). He translated Anubhavamrut by twelfth century bhakti poet Dnyaneshwar. He also wrote poetry in English. Travelling in a Cage (1980) was his first and only book of English poems.

Exile, alienation, self-disintegration and death are major themes in Chitre's poetry, which belongs essentially to the Modernist Movement. It reflects cosmopolitan culture, urban sensibilities, uses oblique expressions and ironic tones.

Films

He started his professional film career in 1969 and made one feature film, about a dozen documentary films, several short films and about 20 video documentary features. He wrote the scripts of most of his films as well as directed or co-directed them. He also scored the music for some of them.^{[citation needed]}

Awards and honors

Among Chitre's honours and awards are several Maharashtra State Awards, the Prix Special du Jury for his film Godam at the

• An Anthology of Marathi Poetry (1945–1965) (Editor), Nirmala-Sadanand, Mumbai, 1968
• Ambulance Ride, Self, Mumbai, 1972
• Travelling in a Cage; Clearing House; Mumbai; 1980
• The Reasoning Vision: Jehangir Sabavala’s Painterly Universe, Introduction and Notes on the paintings by Dilip Chitre
• Tata-McGraw-Hill, New Delhi, 1980
• Says Tuka: Translation of Tukaram, Penguin, 1991
• Tender Ironies: A Tribute To Lothar Lutze (Editor), Manohar, New Delhi, 1994
• Shri Jnandev’s Anubhavamrut: The Immortal Experience of Being, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 1996
• The Mountain, Vijaya Chitre, Pune, 1998
• No-Moon Monday On The River Karha, Vijaya Chitre, Pune, 2000
• Virus Alert: Poems of Hemant Divate,( as translator) Mumbai: Poetrywala, 2003
• Namdeo Dhasal: Poet of the Underground: Poems 1972–2006 (as Translator), Navayana Publishing, Chennai, 2007
• As Is, Where Is: Selected Poems, Poetrywala, Mumbai,2008
• Shesha: Selected Marathi poems in English Translation, Poetrywala, Mumbai, 2008
• Felling of the Banyan Tree
• Father Returning Home

In Hindi

• Pisati ka Burz: Dileep Chitre ki Chuni Huvi Kavitaayen, translated by Chandrakant Deotale, Rajkamal, New Delhi, 1987

In Gujarati

• Milton-na Mahaakaavyo, translated by Yashwant Dashi and the author, Parichay Pustakavali, Mumbai, 1970
• Kavya Vishva Shreni: Marathi: Dileep Chitre, translated by Jaya Mehta, Gujarat Sahitya Academy, Gandhinagar

In German

• Das Fallen des Banyanbaums, translated by Lothar Lutze, Botschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, New Delhi, 1980
• Bombay/Mumbai: Bilder einer Mega-Stadt (with Henning Stegmuller and Namdeo Dhasal) translated by Lothar Lutze, A-1 Verlag, Munchen
• Worte des Tukaram, Translated by Lothar Lutze, A=1 Verlag, Munchen
• Lotos Blatter 1: Dilip Chitre: Aus dem Englischen und dem Marathi, translated by Lothar Lutze, Proben Indische Poesie: Lotos Verlag Roland Beer; Berlin, 2001

Paintings and exhibitions

• 1969, First One Man Show of Oil Paintings; Bombay; India;
• 1975, Triple Triptych; in collaboration with Peter Clarke and Ahmed Muhammad Imamovic; Iowa City, Iowa; USA;
• Participation in group shows in India and the Netherlands;
• Dilip Chitre 63: Mini-Retrospective of Paintings in Pune (1986–2001); Studio S, Pune;2001;
• In the collection of Air-India International, Bombay, India;

Filmography and videography

• Vijeta, produced by Filmvalas, Mumbai, directed by Govind Nihalani; story and screenplay
• Godam, produced by the National Film Development Corporation, Mumbai; screenplay, direction, and music
• Ardha Satya, directed by Govind Nihalani; theme poem
• A Tryst With Destiny, produced by S.S. Oberoi; script and direction
• Education '72, produced by S.S. Oberoi; script and direction
• A Question of Identity, produced by Y.R.Khandekar; script, direction, and narration
• Dattu, produced by Dnyada Naik; script and direction
• Made in India, producer, scriptwriter, and director, on behalf of the Industrial Design Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, Mumbao
• Bombay:Geliebte Moloch, produced by Adanos-Film, gmbh, Munich, Germany; Co-Scriptwriter and C-Director; Videofilms Made For The Archives of Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal (1984–85)
• Shakti Chattopadhyaya: Portrait of the Poet, produced by Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal; Concept, Script, and Direction
• Translating Shakti Chattopadhyaya into English: a discussion with Jyotirmoy Datta and Arvind Krishna Meherotra, concept and direction, produced by Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
• Translating Shakti Chattopadhyaya into Hindi a discussion with Kedar Nath Singh and Prayag Shukla, concept and direction
• Shamsher Bahadur Singh: A Portrait of the Poet, concept and direction
• Shamsher Bahadur Singh in discussion with Namvar Singh and Ashok Vajpeyi, Concept and Direction, produced by Bharat Bhavan Bhopal
• K.Satchidanandan: A Portrait of the Poet and a discussion by Sudha Gopalakrishnan and Rajendra Dhodapkar, concept and direction, produced by Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
• In The Darkness of the Twentieth Century: A discussion featuring Shrikant, Verma, Namvar Singh, and Ashok Vajpeyi, concept and direction, produced by Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
• Kunwar Narayan: A Portrait of the Poet, Concept and Direction, produced by Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
• B.C.Sanyal: Memories of Life and Art at 82, concept and direction; for Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi
• Narayan Surve: A Poet of The Proliterait (in Marathi, Hindi, and English versions), 2000

Editor

• Shabda (1954–1960), Mumbai
• New Quest (1978–1980), (2001–), Mumbai

Columnist

• The Free Press Journal, Mumbai (1959–1960)
• Loksatta, Mumbai
• Dinank, Mumbai
• Ravivar Sakal, Pune
• Quest
• New Quest
• Abhiruchi

Occasional book reviewer/contributor of articles

• The Indian Express
• The Times of India
• Sakaal Times
• Quest
• New Quest
• Granth
• The Illustrated Weekly of India
• Times Weekly
• Biblio
• Gallery
• Kala-Varta
• Sakshatkar
• Poorvagraha

References

External links

• Chitre Home Page
• Tribute to Chitre at Cerebration.org by Sachin Ketkar
• Chitre's Interview at Rediff.com
• A very Important Article by Chitre on Marathi Poetry^{[permanent dead link]}
• Dilip Chitre Interview
• Articles on various topics written by Chitre. Many of them unpublished

Online Poetry

• At Poetry International Web Archived 4 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
• At Muse India
• at Kavitayan Archived 15 December 2009 at the Wayback Machine
• Childhood
• Haikus
• Rape of Gujarat^[1]
• Ode to Bombay
• Frescos on Little Mag
• Hindi Translations of some poems at Pratilipi
• Poems from Shesha
• Gujarati translations of some poems by Hemang Desai^{[permanent dead link]}