Tripti Mitra

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Tripti Mitra
Born
Tripti Bhaduri

(1925-10-25)25 October 1925
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
NationalityIndian
Occupation(s)theatre actor, director
Known for"Bohurupee"
SpouseSombhu Mitra
ChildrenShaoli Mitra
AwardsPadma Shri in 1971

Tripti Mitra (

née Bahaduri; 25 October 1925 – 24 May 1989) was a popular Indian actress of Bengali theatre and films, and wife of Sombhu Mitra, noted theatre director, with whom she co-founded pioneering theatre group Bohurupee in 1948. She has acted in films like Jukti Takko Aar Gappo and Dharti Ke Lal
.

She was awarded Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, the highest Indian recognition given to practicing artists, given by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama in 1962 for Theatre acting, and the Padma Shri in 1971 by Government of India in Arts field.

Early life and education

Tripti Mitra was born in Dinajpur (

Ashutosh College. But she could not complete her studies since she got a job. She married Sombhu Mitra in December, 1945. She had a daughter Shaoli Mitra, who was an actress and director.[citation needed
]

Career

Tripti Mitra had been acting in theatre since her teens. She first acted in her cousin

Nabanna (Harvest) based on Bengal famine of 1943, director Khwaja Ahmad Abbas took her to Bombay to act in Gana Natya Sangha’s film Dharti Ke Lal in 1943, partly based on the play. Her first Bengali film was Pathik in 1953, the film was directed by Debaki Kumar Basu. She also acted in Ritwik Ghatak's last film, Jukti Takko Aar Gappo
(1974).

In 1948, Shombhu and Tripti Mitra founded their own theatre group named

Rakta Karabi
. She also acted in Jago Hua Savera, a 1959 Urdu movie produced in Dhaka, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), based on a Manik Bandopadhya's classic novel Padma Nadir Majhi. Tripti Mitra died on 24 May 1989.

Filmography

Plays

  • Agun
  • Nabanna
  • Jabanbandi
  • Gopinath
  • Ulukhagra
  • Chaar Adhyay (based on Rabindranath Tagore's novella of the same name)
  • Rakta Karabi
    (Tagore's "Red Oleander")
  • Raja (Tagore's "The King of the dark chamber")
  • Baki Itihaas
  • Daakghor (she produced and directed Tagore's The Post Office (play))
  • Sutorang
  • Aparajita
  • Visarjan[2]

Awards

See also

References

  1. ^ "Bohurupee". Archived from the original on 2 February 2012. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
  2. ISBN 0877459614
    . Retrieved 13 February 2018.
  3. ^ "SNA: List of Akademi Awardees". Sangeet Natak Akademi Official website. Archived from the original on 17 February 2012.
  4. ^ "Padma Awards Directory (1954-2009)" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 May 2013.
  5. ^ "Kalidas Award Holders (Theatre)". Department of Culture, Government of Madhya Pradesh.

External links

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