- Vijaya Mehta
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name = Vijaya Mehta
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caption = As "Damyanti Rane", Party, 1984.
birthdate = 1934
location =Baroda ,Gujarat
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awards = 1975Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
1985Asia Pacific Film Festival , Best Actress: Party
1986National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress :Rao Saheb Vijaya Mehta is an Indian Theatre and film director and also an actor in many films from the
Parallel Cinema . She is most known for her acclaimed role in film Party (1984) and for her directorial ventures,Rao Saheb (1986) andPestonjee (1988).Biography
Vijaya Mehta was born in
Baroda ,Gujarat in 1934. She graduated fromBombay University . She studied theatre withEbrahim Alkazi inDelhi and with Adi Marzban. She became a major figure in 60sMarathi experimental theatre.She is a founder member of theatre group, Rangayan with playwright
Vijay Tendulkar ,Arvind Deshpande andShreeram Lagoo .She was awarded the 1975
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for excellence in Direction, in 1986 she won theNational Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role inRao Saheb Her stage production of C T Khanolkar's Ek Shoonya Bajirao is considered as a landmark in contemporary Indian theatre. She introduced
Bertold Brecht into Marathi theatre with adaptation ofThe Caucasian Chalk Circle (Ajab Nyay Vartulacha), and Ionesco with Chairs.She collaborated on Indo-German theatre projects with German director
Fritz Bennewitz including a traditional performance ofBhasa 's Mudrarakshasa with German actors. Except Pestonjee, most of her work consists of film and television adaptations of her stage plays.Filmography
* Party (1984) - Actor
*Rao Saheb (1986) - Director, Screenwriter, Actor
*Pestonjee (1988) - Director, ScreenwriterAwards
* 1975
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
* 1985Asia Pacific Film Festival : Best Actress: Party [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0248289/awards Awards] imdb.]
* 1986National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress :Rao Saheb ee also
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