Madhu Kambikar is an Indian performing folk art artist, theatre actor and film and TV personality, from

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Personal life

She was born in Malegaon, a village in Beed district, 28 July 1953 in the

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community. She dropped out of school and used to follow her father himself a performing artist to shows. She herself became a performer at a very young age. She is the aunt of the late

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. On 27 November 2016, she fell unconscious on stage during a lavani-

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performance at Yashwant Natya Mandir,

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and was hospitalised.

Folk and contemporary theatre

She acted in about a dozen folk plays, including: * Dadu Indurikar's "'" * Shankar Patil's "'" * Ashok Paranjape's "'" *

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' "'" * Atmaram Sawant's "'" * Ashok Patole/ Suyog's "'" * Her own "'" directed by

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She has acted in 22–25 contemporary plays, amongst them are: * ' * ' * * Paying guest * '

Selected filmography

She has acted in over a hundred films, amongst them are: * ''Shapit'' * '' Mukta'' * ''Shola Aur Shabnam'' (1992 film) Hindi film * ''

Doghi ''Doghi'' ('Two Sisters') is a 1995 Indian Marathi film directed by filmmaker duo Sumitra Bhave–Sunil Sukthankar and produced by National Film Development Corporation of India in association with Doordarshan. The film won three awards at the ...

'' * ' * ' * '' Ek hota vidushak'' *

Zapatlela ''Zapatlela '' is a Marathi cinema, Marathi horror comedy movie, which was released on 14 April 1993. It was directed by Mahesh Kothare. It was inspired from the Don Mancini's 1988 Hollywood movie ''Child's Play (1988 film), Child's Play''. I ...

Zapatlela 2 ''Zapatlela 2'' () is a Marathi horror comedy movie, which was released in 3D on 7 June 2013. It is directed by Mahesh Kothare and is the sequel to ''Zapatlela'', released 20 years previously (in 1993). ''Zapatlela 2'' is the first Marathi film ...

* ''Debu'' * ' * ' * ' * ''Laxmi'' * ' * ' * ''Rikshavali'' * ' * ''Raosaheb'' * ''

Mumbaicha dabewala ''Mumbaicha Dabewala'' is a Marathi movie released on 28 December 2007. Produced by Mukund Vitkar and directed by Manohar Sarvankar. Cast * Vijay Chavan * Bharat Jadhav * Deepali Saiyyed * Smita Gondkar * Madhu Kambikar Madhu Kambikar ...

'' * ''Balagandharva'' * *

Accolades

* Hansa Wadkar Special Award for Best Actress * Natvarya Keshavrao Date Puraskar * Chairperson of the 2013 Mahila Lokakala Sammelan, Nagpur * Lokashahir Patthe Bapurao Puraskar * Maharshi Shankarrao Mohite-Patil Lavani Kalavant Puraskar 2007 * Zee Chitra Gaurav Life Time Achievement Award 2018

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kambikar, Madhu Living people Indian musical theatre actresses Indian folk singers Singers from Maharashtra Women musicians from Maharashtra 20th-century Indian singers 20th-century Indian women singers 1953 births