Biography of Sombhu Mitra

 Biography of Sombhu Mitra:

Sombhu mitra was born on 22nd August 1915 in Calcutta Presidency, British India. He was a veteran Indian film and stage actor, playwright, director, reciter and an Indian theatre personality, who was an eminent figure in Bengali theatre. Among his movies the most notable were Jaagte Raho and Dharti Ke Lal.

 

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Bio & Career:

His first seen was in Bengali theatre in Rangmahal Theatre in north Kolkata in the year 1939, after which he shifted to the Natyaniketan, Minerva, and Srirangam theatres. In the year 1943, he associated with Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA). After few years in 1948, Sombhu Mitra established a new theatre group, Bohurupee in Kolkata, which assisted the group-theatre movement in West Bengal.

He has acted in a considerable Hindi and Bengali films. A couple of Hindi movies of which he was a part of were Hindustan Humara and Dharti Ke Lal. He also penned the script of Jagte Raho and directed it along with Amit Maitra. Some of his notable Bengali movies were Manik, Durlabh Janma, Pathik and 42 to name a few.

For his contribution to the Indian Theatre and Cinema, he was awarded Bharat Bhushan in 1970 by Indian Government. He was also awarded Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1976. He married Tripti Mitra, a noted theatre personality. The couple was blessed with a daughter Shaoli, who is apparently a well-known artist of theatre and cinema.

Student life: Shambhu Mitra started his early life at Chakraberia Mill English School. He was then admitted to Baliganj Government School. After finishing school, he was admitted to St. Xavier's College, but in the end he did not finish college.

Drama Life: Shambhu Mitra entered the commercial theater stage in 1939 by contributing to the Rangmahal Theater. It was here that he met Maharshi Manaranjan Bhattacharya. When the theater closed, he first went to Minerva. After a short stay there, he went to Natyaniketan. Shambhu Mitra had a talk with Shishirkumar Bhaduri, a famous playwright of the time, while performing Kalindi in Natyaniketan. Later, Shishirkumar Bhaduri acted in the play Alamgir, but he set out to create a completely new theater. Shambhu Mitra. After that, when Natyaniketan was also closed, he went to 'Srirangam'. But Shambhu Mitra could not unite with the professional stage. It was during this period that Shambhu Mitra met Binoy Ghase and Bijan Bhattacharya at the end of 1942; It was on this basis that he joined the Indian Gananatya Sangha, an anti-fascist writers 'and artists' association. Shambhu Mitra's role as an actor and co-director was very important in the new era of Bengali drama which started in 1944 with his performance in Nabanna. However, instead of promoting only political ideology, Shambhu Mitra left Gananatya Sangha for the purpose of acting in independent and free-thinking plays. In 1948, under the leadership of Manaranjan Bhattacharya, Shambhu Mitra formed his own theater troupe, Bahurupi. In 1950, he starred in Chhera Tar and Ulukhagara. From 1946 to 1971, the work of Bahurupi was staged under the direction of Shambhu Mitra.

The Bohurupee productions:

Under Sombhu Mitra's direction, the Bohurupee staged several successful productions. In December 1950, the Bohurupee presented three plays in the New Empire theatre – Tulsi Lahiri's Pathik and Chenda Tar and Sombhu Mitra's own creation, Ulukhagra. In 1954, Rabindranath Tagore's Rakta Karabi was staged by the Bohurupee, followed by his Bisarjan, Raja and Char Adhyay. Other notable productions include Bidhyak Bhattacharya's Tahar Namti Ranjana and Kanchanranga. Under his direction, this group also presented the Bengali adaptations of several well-known dramas from the world stage. Henrik Ibsen's Putul Khela (Doll's House), Dashachakra (An Enemy of the People) and Sophocles' Raja Oidipaus (Oedipus Rex) are notable amongst them.

Honours and awards:

Sombhu Mitra received many national and international awards, which include the Crystal Globe for Jagte Raho at the 1957 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the Desikottama from Visva Bharati University in 1989, an honorary D. Litt from both Rabindra Bharati University and Jadavpur University in Kolkata, the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1976 for journalism, literature and creative communication arts and the Padmabhushan in the same year. He received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship in 1966. For his contribution in the movies, he won the Grand-Prix Award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Madhya Pradesh Government honoured him with Kalidas Samman (1982–83).

1956 – Certificate of Merit for Best Feature Film in Bengali – Ek Din Ratre.