Hansa wadkar autobiography
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In the late 80&#;s or early 90&#;s, Doordarshan telecast a fantastic series titled &#;Portrait of the Director&#;. It featured six documentaries on six acclaimed directors of Hindi Cinema. It was in the episode on Shyam Benegal, that I first heard about this book. His acclaimed film, Bhumika, starring Smita Patil in the award winning title role, was based loosely on this &#;autobiography&#;.
Hansa Wadkar (), born Ratan Bhalchandra Salgaokar, was a well-known Marathi actress of the s and 40s. Making her debut at the age of 10, Hansa Wadkar starred in several Marathi and Hindi movies, including two of Marathi cinema&#;s biggest hits, Lokshahir Ramjoshi () and Sangtye Aika ().
It was a set of interviews appearing in a Marathi magazine, Manoos, in that culminated in her autobiography, Sangtye Aika (You ask, I tell). The book form, which became a bestseller, was published in and received the State Government Award for Best Autobiography in The English translation, by Jasbir Jain and Shobha Shinde, was published by Zubaan Books last year.
Episodic in structure and forthright in tone and voice, Hansa Wadkar&#;s memoirs give us an insight into her unconventional, difficult and tragic life, dwelling upon certain events more than others.
Born on January 24,
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Abstract
The autobiography of late Indian actor Hansa Wadkar (), Sangtye Aika () is a unique piece of writing that was ahead of its time. Initially, a collaborative project with the Marathi weekly Manoos () the process of which was documented, this book brought out Wadkar’s story in her voice, as narrated by her. This autobiography was instrumental because, at the time, it gave Wadkar the agency to tailor her autobiographical self to the way she wanted to portray herself. Later, in , inspired by Wadkar’s book, noted Indian filmmaker Shyam Benegal made the film Bhumika: The Role, albeit with significant rewritings and departures from Wadkar’s text. The paper examines both the writing of the text and its rewriting into the film to evaluate how the agency of the author got modified in the process of adaptation. It also argues that the film is partly a re-casting of Wadkar’s image into the mold of the heroine from humble beginnings-turned-unsung-feminist-icon as Benegal saw her. In doing so, the paper questions the erasure of Wadkar’s narrative authority by critically analyzing and comparing the film with the book. In pursuing these strands of inquiry, the paper addresses the research gap in the studies on autobiographical writings by South Asian women in cinema and the adaptatio
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Hansa Wadkar
Indian intensity and ep actress
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Still from album Navjeevan () | |
| Born | Ratan Salgaokar Bombay, Maharashtra, British India |
| Died | (aged&#;47&#;48) Bombay, Maharashtra, India |
| Occupation | actress |
| Years&#;active | – |
| Spouse | Jagannath Bandarkar &#; &#; (m.&#;; sep.&#;)&#; |
| Children | 1 daughter, Rekha |
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