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Arvind Deshpande is a Actor born on 31 may 1932

Arvind Deshpande

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Birth 31 may 1932
Death 3 january 1987 (at 54 years)

Arvind Deshpande was an acclaimed Indian film, theatre and television actor and theatre director. Apart from Marathi theatre as well as Hindi theatre in Mumbai, he acted in many mainstream Bollywood as well as art house films as a character actor, apart from TV series and plays.

A leading figure in experimental theatre movement of the 1960s, he was associated with Rangayan, that he co-founded with his wife Sulabha Deshpande and Vijaya Mehta. In 1971 he co-founded with his wife, theatre group, Awishkarand also started its children's wing, Chandrashala, which continues to perform professional children theatre. Arvind and Sulabha Deshpande along with playwright Vijay Tendulkar were also at the centre of the Chhabildas Movement in Marathi experimental theatre during the 1960s and 70s.

Biography

Arvind was married to noted theatre actor-director, Sulabha Deshpande.

He died on 3 January 1987.

Usually with

Sulabha Deshpande
Sulabha Deshpande
(6 films)
Smita Patil
Smita Patil
(6 films)
Basu Chatterjee
Basu Chatterjee
(3 films)
Asrani
Asrani
(4 films)
Shabana Azmi
Shabana Azmi
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Arvind Deshpande (19 films)

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Sheesha
Sheesha (1986)
, 2h10
Directed by Basu Chatterjee
Genres Drama
Actors Mithun Chakraborty, Moon Moon Sen, Vijayendra Ghatge, Mallika Sarabhai, Arvind Deshpande
Rating70% 3.512613.512613.512613.512613.51261
Sheesha is a family thriller, featuring Mithun Chakraborty and Moon Moon Sen in lead roles and supported by Vijayendra Ghatge and Mallika Sarabhai. The film is a court room drama as well. The movie was based on a Bengali novel authored by Shankar (Mansamman) and was first movie about sexual harassment in office a bold concept movie did well at box office some bold scene was also present in movie Mallika Sarabhai play an woman who case against Mithun Chakraborty and Moon Moon Sen help to mithun .
Sanjog
Sanjog (1985)

Directed by K. Viswanath
Genres Drama
Actors Jeetendra, Vinod Mehra, Aruna Irani, Asrani, Arvind Deshpande, Agha
Rating69% 3.4538853.4538853.4538853.4538853.453885
Bombay-bred Narain goes to a village, where he meets and falls in love with a village belle, Yashodra. She also is attracted to him, and both get married. After their marriage, both go to live with Narain's parents, brother, and sister-in-law, Lalita, and her son, Sonu. Yashodra gets close to Sonu, and starts to spend all her time with him. This raises some concerns with Lalita, which results in some acrimony. Tragically, Sonu passes away, leaving Yashodra devastated and depressed. She gets pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl, but cannot get Sonu out of her mind. Her depression gives way to insanity, as she keeps on seeing Sonu in every child, and as a result she is institutionalized. Narain has taken to alcohol in a big way and drowns his sorrows and frustrations day and night in a drunken stupor. As a result, his daughter is adopted by Lalita and his brother, without knowing who her real parents are. Years pass by, her daughter, Asha, has grown up and is herself a mother of a baby boy, and settled in the U.S.. Asha arrives in India for a visit and the entire family assembles to visit Yashodra. They find her holding a piece of log, covered in a blanket, singing to it as if it where Sonu. It is here that Asha finds out who her real parents are, and it is here that she will be called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice.
Duniya
Duniya (1984)

Directed by Ramesh Talwar
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Rishi Kapoor, Dilip Kumar, Sulabha Deshpande, Amrita Singh, Pran Krishan Sikand, Amrish Puri
Roles Albert Pinto
Rating63% 3.1946853.1946853.1946853.1946853.194685
Mohan Kumar is a very honest and conscientious man and is working as general manager of a Shipping company owned by his very good friend, Dinesh. Dinesh is a widower and his daughter, Roma is very attached to Mohan Kumar, his wife Sumitra and son Ravi. Jugal Kishore, Bhandari and Balwant are a notorious gang of smugglers and all are working under Mohan Kumar in the same shipping company. By a sheer co-incidence Mohan Kumar comes to know of their activities and apprehending police station, these three plan the murder of Dinesh and very deviously frame Mohan Kumar for the murder of Dinesh. Mohan Kumar is helpless and cannot prove his innocence in the court and is sentenced to Life Imprisonment. His wife is also killed in an accident because of these three villains.
Tarang
Tarang (1984)
, 2h51
Directed by Kumar Shahani
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Actors Amol Palekar, Smita Patil, Dr. Shriram Lagoo, Om Puri, Girish Karnad, M.K. Raina
Roles Kalyan
Rating68% 3.407443.407443.407443.407443.40744
Sethji (Shreeram Lagoo) is a widowed businessman who lives a comfortable life with his only daughter, Hansa, his son-in-law, Rahul (Amol Palekar), and a grandson, Munna. Rahul is Sethji's right-hand man, and his nephew Dinesh (Girish Karnad) is his assistant. Over time, petty rivalries and jealousies have grown in the family, and Sethji and Rahul feel that Dinesh is trying to undermine the business. They make a plan to get rid of him without attracting any attention to themselves and succeed, but the after-effects are not kind towards Sethji's health, which grows worse eventually leading to his untimely death. Shortly thereafter, Hansa also dies, leaving her husband Rahul to look after the business on his own. Things start to turn controversial once Rahul begins an affair with the maidservant Janki (Smita Patil), and it is soon revealed that Hansa's death may not have been a suicide, but was a cover-up. As the mysteries start to unfold, they leave a scarring emotional impact on Rahul, and test his relationship with his late wife's family and his new lover.
Woh 7 Din
Woh 7 Din (1983)

Directed by Bapu
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Anil Kapoor, Padmini Kolhapure, Naseeruddin Shah, Nilu Phule, Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed Jaffery, Raju Shreshtha
Roles Anand's Dad
Rating74% 3.741483.741483.741483.741483.74148
Maya (played by Padmini Kolhapure) attempts suicide on the day of her nuptial night. Dr. Anand (played by Naseeruddin Shah), Maya's husband, who is a doctor, treats her, and finds out that she attempted suicide. When Maya gains conscience, she confirms her secret to Dr. Anand: She didn't want to get married and was forced.
Sadma
Sadma (1983)
, 2h21
Directed by Balu Mahendra
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Kamal Haasan, Sridevi, Gulshan Grover, Silk Smitha, J. V. Somayajulu, Arvind Deshpande
Roles J. K. Malhotra
Rating82% 4.1438254.1438254.1438254.1438254.143825
Nehalata (Sridevi) is a young, modern girl who meets with an accident that leaves her with the memory and intelligence of a seven-year-old. Circumstances lead her into prostitution, and in the brothel she meets Somu (Kamal Haasan). He realizes that she has been tricked into the trade. He rescues her and takes her to his home in Ooty and begins to take care of her. He knows Nehalata as Reshmi, which was the pseudonym given to her at the brothel. Reshmi reciprocates Somu's care as they spend several months together sharing an amazing and innocent relationship that treads the tender line between affection and love. The sub-plot of the film follows the wife of Somu's boss who is attracted to Somu, though Somu doesn't reciprocate her feelings. It depicts how the outside world succumbs to carnal desires which have no place in Somu and Reshmi's relationship. Somu takes Reshmi to the village's medical practitioner who cures her and brings her back to sanity as she regains her memory up to the point of her accident. When Somu comes to meet Reshmi later that day, she is unable to identify or remember him. Despite his efforts to make her understand that he was the one who had taken care of her for several months, she is indifferent to him and leaves Ooty for her hometown, thus abandoning Somu and the life and relationship that she once had with him.
Ek Duuje Ke Liye
Ek Duuje Ke Liye (1981)
, 2h43
Directed by Kailasam Balachander
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Kamal Haasan, Rati Agnihotri, Satyen Kappu, Madhavi Alladurgam, Raza Murad, Asrani
Roles Kundanlal
Rating72% 3.6438453.6438453.6438453.6438453.643845
The movie is about the love between a Tamil man, Vasu (Kamal Haasan), and a North Indian woman, Sapna (Rati Agnihotri), who are neighbours in Goa. They come from totally different backgrounds and can hardly speak the other's language. Their parents despise each other and they have regular skirmishes. When Vasu and Sapna admit their love, there is chaos in their homes, and their parents reject the idea.
Aakrosh
Aakrosh (1980)
, 2h24
Directed by Govind Nihalani
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about racism, Musical films, Political films, Bollywood
Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri, Om Puri, Mohan Agashe, Reema Lagoo
Roles Dr Vasant M. Patil
Rating78% 3.936413.936413.936413.936413.93641
Allegedly based on a true incident reported on page 7 of a local newspaper, the film was a scathing satire on the corruption in the judicial system and the victimization of the underprivileged by the able and the powerful.
Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai
Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai (1980)
, 1h50
Directed by Saeed Akhtar Mirza
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Om Puri, Sulabha Deshpande, Arvind Deshpande
Roles Mr. Pinto
Rating70% 3.532433.532433.532433.532433.53243
The film captures the angst of a worker, in Mumbai exemplified by a young Christian car mechanic, Albert Pinto (Naseeruddin Shah) who is under the illusion that if he works hard and emulates the rich, one day he can also be successful. He makes friendly relations with his customers, who are usually the rich of the city and who keep telling him that good workers do not go on strike. Strikes are the handiwork of lumpen elements. Pinto gets angry with the supposedly wrong attitudes of the workers who he assumes go on strike under any pretext. However, when Pinto's father, who is a mill worker is abused by the lumpen elements hired by the mill owners, he realizes that it is not the workers but the capitalists who should be blamed for the plight of the workers. He also realizes the legitimacy of strikes. Towards the end of the movie, Pinto still remains an angry man; but now his anger is directed against the capitalists, not the striking workers.
Baton Baton Mein
Baton Baton Mein (1979)

Directed by Basu Chatterjee
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Amol Palekar, Tina Ambani, Pearl Padamsee, David Abraham, Asrani, Arvind Deshpande
Roles Mr. Braganza
Rating74% 3.739823.739823.739823.739823.73982
Rosie Perreira (Pearl Padamsee) is an overly anxious widow, living with her violin-obsessed son, Shabi (Ranjit Chowdhry) and a lovely daughter, Nancy (Tina Munim) who she would like to get married to a wealthy young man. Her brother and neighbour, Tom (David) introduces a young eligible Tony Braganza (Amol Palekar) to Nancy in the 9:10 AM Western Railway local train from Bandra to Churchgate. Tom also asks Nancy to introduce Tony to Rosie, which she does. Rosie is initially apprehensive about him as he only drawing a mere Rs.300/ compared to Nancy's Rs.700/-, but soon changes her mind when she finds out that after his probationary period he will draw a monthly pay of Rs.1000/-. Nancy and Tony are permitted to meet and both eventually fall in love. While Nancy has a past where she was betrayed by a boy whom she loved,she still likes Tony. Tony is hesitant, and this is what costs him Nancy's love, as Rosie feels that he will not come through with the marriage. And soon Rosie starts looking elsewhere for a son-in-law. Nancy does not like this but she at first accepts whatever her mom wants.Nancy and Tony have a fight and stop meeting each other in the train as well. When Tom comes to know about this he speaks to Tony's dad. Tony's dad tells tony that if he is still reluctant to make any commitments, he should tell Nancy about the same. So Nancy and Tony meet each other and Nancy tells him that she will never meet him again. It is then that Tony feels that he actually loves Nancy and cannot live without her. Then Nancy also confesses her love for him and they get married happily.