Macchindra Kambli (4 April 1947 – 30 September 2007) was a veteran
Marathi
Marathi may refer to:
*Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India
*Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people
*Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece
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theatre actor, director, and producer. Known for his humorous style, he brought
Malvani Malvani may refer to:
*Malvani people, people from the Malvan region of Maharashtra, on the Konkan coast of western India
*Malvani language, Indic language spoken by these people, closely related to Konkani and Marathi
*Malvani cuisine, cuisine of t ...
dialect to the mainstream of Marathi
theatre. He acted, directed and produced Malvani/ Marathi
plays. He died on 30 September 2007 at the age of 60.
Early life
He was born in
Rewandi village,
Sindhudurg,
Maharashtra
Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...
. His father died when he was a child, and was raised by his mother.
Career
He had established Bhadrakali Productions, a banner known for its ethnic Malvani comedies.
His famous work includes:
*Vastraharan – A play within a play about a group of actors attempting to stage the
Vastraharan episode from Mahabharata, took the Marathi theatre by storm and established him in the Marathi theatre industry.
*Pandgo Ilo re
*Ghas re rama
*Yeva Konkan Aplach Asa
*Maza Pati Chhatrapati
*Vai Varsha Panchavan
He had also acted in Marathi movie ''Painjan''.
Politics and career
He briefly dabbled into politics by unsuccessfully contesting the Lok Sabha elections for the
Indian National Congress from
Rajapur in 1998. He got 1,52,724 votes against
Suresh Prabhu of
Shiv Sena
Shiv Sena ( IAST: ''Śiva Sēnā'') () was a right-wing to far-right Marathi regionalist and Hindu ultranationalist political party in India founded in 1966 by cartoonist Bal Thackeray. Originally emerging from nativist movements in Bom ...
who won with 2,17,766 votes. He later was associated with the Nationalist Congress Party. He remained president of Marathi theatre artiste organization,
Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Natya Parishad
Akhila Bhāratīya Marāṭhī Nāṭya Pariṣhad is a Marathi theatre
Marathi theatre is theatre in the Marathi language, mostly originating or based in the state of Maharashtra in India, and elsewhere with Marathi diaspora. Starting in t ...
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Male actors from Maharashtra
1952 births
2007 deaths
Indian male stage actors
Marathi actors
Indian theatre directors
Male actors in Marathi theatre
Indian National Congress politicians
Nationalist Congress Party politicians from Maharashtra