Vishram Bedekar
{{Short description|Indian writer and film director}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Vishwanath Chintamani Bedekar
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| native_name_lang = Marathi
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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1906|8|13}}
| birth_place = Amravati, Bombay Presidency, British India
| death_date = {{death date and age|1998|10|30|1906|8|13|df=y}}
| death_place = Pune, Maharashtra, India
| nationality = British Indian {{small|(1906–1947)}}
Indian {{small|(1947–1998)}}
| other_names = Vishram Bedekar
| children = Shrikant Bedekar
| spouse = Malati Bedekar
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Vishwanath Chintamani Bedekar (1906–1998), who professionally used the name Vishram Bedekar, was an Indian Marathi-language writer and film director.
Bedekar was born on 13 August 1906, in Amravati. After receiving his college degree in Amravati, he went to Nagpur for his post-graduate studies. During his college days, he was drawn to English literature and theater. He moved to Pune in the 1930s. In 1938, he married Malati Bedekar, (whose maiden name was Balutai Khare).{{cite book
| title = Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the early twentieth century
| publisher = Feminist Press at CUNY
| year= 1991
| isbn = 9781558610279
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=u297RJP9gvwC&q=Vibhavari+Shirurkar+bedekar&pg=PA426}}
Literary work
In 1939, Bedekar wrote his only novel Ranangan. It portrayed romantic love between an Indian youth and a German Jewish girl against the backdrop of World War II, and created a storm in literary circles in his times, and was translated into English in 2021. The novel was based on Bedekar's own experience on an ocean voyage in 1938 from Europe to India in which he encountered a number of Jews fleeing German persecution.Reciprocal Misapprehensions: Jews on Non Jews, and Non Jews on Jews in Indian Fiction, by Dr. Navras Jaat Aafreedi, The Journal of Indo Judaic Studies Bedekar received in 1985 a Sahitya Akademi Award for his autobiographical Ek Jhad Ani Don Pakshi.{{cite web|title=Akademi Awards (1955-2015)|url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/awards/akademi%20samman_suchi.jsp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304084937/http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/awards/akademi%20samman_suchi.jsp|archive-date=4 March 2016|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|access-date=2 September 2016}} He presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan in Bombay in 1988.
Bedekar wrote several plays:
- Brahma Kumari (A mythological play with contemporary relevance)
- Naro Wa Kunjaro Wa
- Waje Paul Apule
- Tilak Ani Agarkar
The last play depicted the emotional and intellectual conflict between Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Gopal Ganesh Agarkar.
Movie Direction
Bedekar took a course in cinematography in the U.K. He directed many Marathi and Hindi films.{{cite web|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report-when-salim-khan-was-offered-role-of-bajirao-in-the-50-s-2158032|title=When Salim Khan was offered role of Bajirao... in the 50s|date=21 December 2015|access-date=2 September 2016}} Few of the notable movies are :
- Thakiche Lagna
- Satyache Prayog
- Vasudeo Balwant
- Naradnardi
- Krushnarjun Yuddha
- Chool Ani Mool
- Ramshastri
- Pahila Palna
- Andheri Duniya (Hindi) (1936)
- Lakharani (Hindi) (1945)
- Talaash (Hindi) 1957
- Do Bhai (Hindi) (1961)
- Rustom Sohrab (Hindi) (1963)
- Ek Nanhi Munni Ladki Thi (Hindi) (1970)
- Bharat Ke Shaheed (Hindi) (1972)
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070929123247/http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19981031/30451124.html Vishram Bedekar passes away]
- [https://speakingtigerbooks.com/product/battlefield/ Battlefield by Vishram Bedekar, tr. by Jerry Pinto]
- [https://speakingtigerbooks.com/authors-name/vishram-bedekar/ Biography of Vishram Bedekar]
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Category:Marathi-language writers
Category:Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Marathi
Category:20th-century Indian poets
Category:Poets from Maharashtra
Category:20th-century Indian male writers
Category:Presidents of the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan