M. S. Sathyu

{{Infobox person

| image = M S Sathyu Cropped.jpg

| name = Mysore Srinivas Sathyu

| caption = Sathyu in 2010

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1930|07|06}}

| birth_place = Mysore, Kingdom of Mysore, British India

| nationality = Indian

| occupation = Film director
Stage Designer
Art Director

| known_for = Garm Hava and Bara

| spouse = Shama Zaidi

}}

Mysore Shrinivas Sathyu (born 6 July 1930) is a film director, stage designer and art director from India. He is best known for his directorial Garm Hava (1973), which was based on the partition of India.{{cite news |title=Back Story: Separate lives |url=http://www.livemint.com/2012/07/27221329/Film--Back-story.html |publisher=Mint |date= 27 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181101140149/https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/xh9EvT8R5nSO58eu3RJgRL/Film--Back-story.html |archive-date=1 November 2018 }} He was awarded Padma Shri in 1975.

Early and personal life

Born into a Kannada family, Sathyu grew up in Mysore. He pursued his higher education at Mysore and later Bangalore. In 1952, he quit college while working on his Bachelor of Science degree. Sathyu is married to Shama Zaidi, a north Indian Shia Muslim. They have two daughters.

Career

He freelanced as an animator in 1952–53. After being unemployed for nearly four years, he got his first salaried job as assistant director to filmmaker Chetan Anand.He worked in theatre as a designer and director, including designing sets and lights for productions of Hindustani Theatre, Okhla Theatre of Habib Tanvir, Kannada Bharati and other groups of Delhi. In films, he has worked as an art director, camera-man, screenwriter, producer and director. His first film. His fas an independent Art director or Haqeeqat, a film by Chetan Anand, which won him recognition and the 1965 Filmfare Award for Best Art Direction. His filmography includes over 15 documentaries and 8 feature films in Hindi, Urdu and Kannada.Barnouw, Erik, and S. Krishnaswamy, Indian Film, New York and London, 1963.

His best known work, Garm Hava (Scorching Winds, 1973), is one of the last cinema productions featuring 1950s Marxist cultural activists including Balraj Sahni and Kaifi Azmi. Garm Hava won several Indian national awards in 1974, including a National Integration Award.

Chakravarty, Sumita S., National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947–1987, Austin, Texas, 1993 It was screened in the competitive section at Cannes and was also the Indian entry at the Oscars. It won the Filmfare award for best screenplay.Azmi, Kafi and Shama Zaidi, Three Hindi Film Scripts, 1974.

M. S. Sathyu currently is associated mainly with television and stage. In 2013, Sathyu featured in the popular Google Reunion ad, where he played the role of Yusuf, an elderly Pakistani man who is reunited with his childhood pre-partition friend from India, Baldev (Vishwa Mohan Badola).{{cite news |title=Searching for Memories|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/searching-for-memories/1195036/ |publisher=The Indian Express |date= 15 November 2013 }} The commercial went viral on social media.{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/back-with-the-wind/article6596295.ece|title=Back with the wind|date=14 November 2014|work=The Hindu|access-date=2014-11-14}}{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/10459212/Google-Search-emotional-Google-India-reunion-advert-goes-viral.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131120053619/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/10459212/Google-Search-emotional-Google-India-reunion-advert-goes-viral.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 November 2013|title=Google Search: emotional Google India reunion advert goes viral|date=19 November 2013|work=The Telegraph|access-date=2014-11-14}}{{cite magazine|url=https://world.time.com/2013/11/14/why-indians-and-pakistanis-find-this-ad-incredibly-moving/|title=Google India-Pakistan Search Ad|date=14 November 2013|magazine=TIME|access-date=2014-11-14}} Sathyu is one of the patrons of Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA). He directed musical play Gul E Bakavali written by Sudheer Attavar; represented 8th World Theatre Olympics in year 2018 . He also directed plays like 'Dara Shikoh', Amrita, Bakri, Kuri, Akhri Shama and many more. In 2014, his debut film, Garm Hava was re-released after restoration.

Awards

1965 : Filmfare Best Art Direction Award: Haqeeqat (for black-and-white film category)
1974 : Cannes Film Festival: Golden Palm : Garm Hava: Nominated.
1974 : National Film Award: Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration: Garam Hawa{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/21st_nff_1973.pdf|title=21st National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=29 September 2011}}
1975 : Padma Shri{{cite web|title=Padma Awards Directory (1954–2013) |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}
1981-82 : Karnataka State Film Award for First Best Film for "Bara"
1981-82 : Karnataka State Film Award for Best Director for "Bara"
1982 : Filmfare Award for Best Film – Kannada for "Bara"
1982 : Filmfare Award for Best Director – Kannada for "Bara"
1984 : National Film Award: Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration: Sookha{{cite web|url=http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm31stNFAAward.aspx|title=31st National Film Awards|publisher=India International Film Festival|access-date=9 December 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112200555/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm31stNFAAward.aspx|archive-date=12 November 2013|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/31st_nff_1984.pdf|title=31st National Film Awards (PDF)|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=9 December 2011}}
1984 : Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie Hindi : Sookha[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0766166/awards Awards] Internet Movie Database.{{cite web| title = Critics Award for Best Film| publisher = Filmfare Awards Official listing, Indiatimes| url = http://recipeguide.indiatimes.com/awards2001/ex_cfilm.htm| access-date = 2014-05-20| archive-date = 18 December 2014| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141218030957/http://recipeguide.indiatimes.com/awards2001/ex_cfilm.htm| url-status = dead}}
1994 : Sangeet Natak Akademi Award: Stagecraft{{cite web|url=http://www.sangeetnatak.org/sna/awardeeslist.htm |title=SNA: List of Akademi Awardees |publisher=Sangeet Natak Akademi Official website |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217185616/http://www.sangeetnatak.org/sna/awardeeslist.htm |archive-date=17 February 2012 }}
2014 :Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship : Theatre {{cite web|title=Declaration of Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships (Akademi Ratna) and Akademi Awards (Akademi Puraskar) for the Year 2014|url=http://www.sangeetnatak.gov.in/files2015-16/Press%20Release%20SNA%20Awards%20for%20the%20year%202014%20-%20English.pdf|website=www.sangeetnatak.gov.in|access-date=13 June 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150614110227/http://www.sangeetnatak.gov.in/files2015-16/Press%20Release%20SNA%20Awards%20for%20the%20year%202014%20-%20English.pdf|archive-date=14 June 2015|df=dmy-all}}