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Sulabha Deshpande is a Actor and Director Indian born on 1 january 1937 at Mumbai (Inde)
Sulabha (or Sulbha) Deshpande (Marathi: सुलभा देशपांडे; born 1937) is an acclaimed Indian film, theatre and television actress and theatre director. Apart from Marathi theatre as well as Hindi theatre in Mumbai, she has acted in over 73 movies mainstream Bollywood as well as art house cinema, like Bhumika (1977), Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan (1978) and Gaman (1978) as a character actor, apart from numerous TV series and plays. A leading figure in experimental theatre movement of the 1960s, she was associated with Rangayan, and personalities like Vijay Tendulkar, Vijaya Mehta, and Satyadev Dubey. In 1971 she co-founded, theatre group, Awishkar with her husband Arvind Deshpande, and also started its children's wing, Chandrashala, which continues to perform professional children theatre.
^ "Theatre guru Satyadev Dubey passes away". The Hindu. 25 December 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
^ "Interview : 'Reaction matters to me'". The Hindu. 16 November 2008. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
^ "Quality, not quantity of life, matters, feels Sulabha Deshpande". Indian Express. 13 October 2012.
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Nationality Inde
Birth 1 january 1937 at Mumbai (Inde)
Death 4 june 2016 (at 79 years)
Awards Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Birth 1 january 1937 at Mumbai (Inde)
Death 4 june 2016 (at 79 years)
Awards Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Sulabha (or Sulbha) Deshpande (Marathi: सुलभा देशपांडे; born 1937) is an acclaimed Indian film, theatre and television actress and theatre director. Apart from Marathi theatre as well as Hindi theatre in Mumbai, she has acted in over 73 movies mainstream Bollywood as well as art house cinema, like Bhumika (1977), Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan (1978) and Gaman (1978) as a character actor, apart from numerous TV series and plays. A leading figure in experimental theatre movement of the 1960s, she was associated with Rangayan, and personalities like Vijay Tendulkar, Vijaya Mehta, and Satyadev Dubey. In 1971 she co-founded, theatre group, Awishkar with her husband Arvind Deshpande, and also started its children's wing, Chandrashala, which continues to perform professional children theatre.
^ "Theatre guru Satyadev Dubey passes away". The Hindu. 25 December 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
^ "Interview : 'Reaction matters to me'". The Hindu. 16 November 2008. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
^ "Quality, not quantity of life, matters, feels Sulabha Deshpande". Indian Express. 13 October 2012.
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Investment (2013)
, 2h2Directed by Ratnakar Matkari
Actors Sulabha Deshpande, Tushar Dalvi
Roles Aai
Rating71%
Investment tells the story of a typical ‘upwardly mobile’ couple: Aashish, an ambitious young man, about to change his job to join an American firm, and his wife Prachi, who is encouraging and eager to move into a higher class of society. (This couple is indicative of the young people in urban areas thriving to achieve more, albeit at cost of social values). The couple has a twelve-year-old son, Sohel, who is being brought up with much care and with a dream of raising a successful Politician of the Future, a field which they believe is promising due to its lucrative opportunities of growth, power and finance.
Avatarachi Goshta (2013)
, 1h58Actors Ashish Vidyarthi, Adinath Kothare, Sulabha Deshpande
Roles Kaustubh's Aaji
Rating77%
Kaustubh(Mihiresh Joshi) is an innocent little boy. He loves to live in his imaginative world that is full of wonders and adventures. The tales that his grandma, Aaji(Sulabha Deshpande) tells him is the base on which he has built a few fantasies. The Dashavtar tales from Indian mythology are his favourite. These tales are based on Lord Vishnu’s Ten avatars. Kaustubh has also learnt through these tales that Lord Vishnu’s tenth avatar, the Kalki avatar is going to be in Kaliyuga, the modern era we are in. Innocent mind of Kaustubh, who is in his fourth standard, is captured with the imagination that he himself is that Kalki avatar. His close friend Mangya(Yash Kulkarni), who is equally thrilled with this idea, confirms his belief. A few incidental coincidences validate Kaustubh’s imagination. Once he is convinced, he shares this secret with Amod(Adinath Kothare), the young engineering student that is a tenant in Kaustubh’s home. Amod who is atheist by nature, does not pay much attention. Convinced by the idea of being the Kalki avatar, Kaustubh becomes so confident that he tries the biggest adventure he is possessed with since quite long. He gets injured and suffers from a fractured leg. This acts as a big blow to Kaustubh’s fantasy and his emotionally driven imaginative world gets shattered. He finds it difficult to come to terms with the reality and goes in a shell. He starts avoiding his dear friend Mangya and even everybody at his home. Observing his strange behaviour, the Doctor advises Kaustubh’s parents to consult a psychiatrist. But they don’t act upon the advice in anticipation of the social stigma.Kaustubh’s mother(Leena Bhagwat) realizes that Kaustubh who feels so detached from everyone, is pretty comfortable with Amod. So she requests Amod to help Kaustubh come out of this emotional turmoil. Amod accepts this challenge and in an attempt of getting into the crux of the problem, gets friendly with Mangya. He then understands that thereal cause is Kaustubh’s fantasy based passion of becoming an avatar. Amod shares with Kaustubh a different perspective about the very concept of the avatar and slowly helps him come out of the mental stress he is facing. Kaustubh with Amod’s help overcomes the depression and regains his confidence.
English Vinglish (2012)
, 2h9Directed by Gauri Shinde
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Sridevi, Mehdi Nebbou, Priya Anand, Adil Hussain, Ajith Kumar, Navika Kotia
Roles Grandma
Rating77%
Shashi Godbole (Sridevi) is a housewife who makes and sells laddoos as a home-run business. Her husband Satish, (Adil Hussain) and daughter, Sapna (Navika Kotia) take her for granted, mock her poor English skills and generally treat her with disrespect, making Shashi feel negative and insecure. However, her young son, Sagar (Shivansh Kotia) loves her as she is, and her mother-in-law (Sulabha Deshpande) offers her words of sympathy.
Mala Aai Vhhaychy! (2011)
Genres Drama
Actors Urmila Kanitkar Kothare, Sulabha Deshpande
Roles Sindhutai
Rating79%
Mary comes looking to India for a surrogate mother to bear a child. She finds a poor woman Yashoda who accepts the offer. Yashoda gets pregnant successfully. But during her pregnancy, doctors inform Mary & Yashoda that due to some complications the child would probably be born with disabilities. Mary decides to quit through this and leaves India. Yashoda begs her to not leave. But she is then left alone with a child in her womb. Few years later Mary loses her patience and decided to come back and look for her child.
Haapus (2010)
Actors Makarand Madhukar Anaspure, Subodh Bhave, Shivaji Satam, Pushkar Shotri, Sulabha Deshpande
Roles Grandmother
Rating69%
Haapus throws light on an important aspect the life of Malwani People. 'Haapus' is a Marathi film based on the farmers who are engaged in the cultivation of Haapus Aamba (Alphonso Mangoes) in Konkan area of Maharashtra, India. Basically it is a story about one family from a village where the young son of an astrologer wants to break the vicious circle of the mango-farmers getting peanuts from a rich business man who earns millions in the market, and to do so he has to contend with his father's immense belief in astrology. It is a light-hearted comedy, which people of all age groups can enjoy.
Bumm Bumm Bole (2010)
Directed by Priyadarshan
Genres Drama
Actors Darsheel Safary, Atul Kulkarni, Rituparna Sengupta, Ziyah Vastani, Sulabha Deshpande, Kaveri Jha
Roles Kuhu`s Grandmother
Rating62%
Character development is very important in this film. Khogiram (Atul Kulkarni), his wife (Rituparna Sengupta) and their children Pinu (Darsheel) and Rimzim (Zia) belong to a terrorist dominated region. Khogiram and Ritu have a hand-to-mouth income working for a tea plantation and can barely manage things. The kids are affected by this as well. They go to a respectable school as it is Khogiram's ambition to give them the educational opportunities he missed. But the financial crunch makes it difficult for kids to match the standards of the school. They don't have enough money for uniform or shoes. Things become worse when Pinu misplaces Rimzim's only pair of shoes in the vegetable shop. Pinu tells Rimzim about the shoes and begs her not to tell their mother; she agrees.
The Well (2009)
, 2h15Directed by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni
Genres Drama
Actors Mohan Agashe, Madan Deodhar, Sulabha Deshpande, Girish Kulkarni, Jyoti Subhash
Rating76%
Moksha (2001)
Directed by Ashok Mehta
Genres Drama
Actors Arjun Rampal, Manisha Koirala, Kalpana Pandit., Suresh Oberoi, Mohan Gokhale, Sushma Seth
Rating61%
The story is about law graduate Vikram Saigal (Arjun Rampal) who is not happy with his lot at all. He is very idealistic and wants to battle corruption and society and change the world.
Gair (1999)
, 2h25Genres Drama, Action
Actors Ajay Devgn, Raveena Tandon, Reena Roy, Amrish Puri, Paresh Rawal, Ajinkya Dev
Rating43%
Entrepreneur C.K.Oberoi (Amrish Puri) raises a child as his own when it is found abandoned, and the child Vijay Kumar(Ajay Devgn) grows to live up to his expectations, but soon has to face the ire of the envious and power hungry relatives of Oberoi who do not want Vijay to prosper.
Mann (1999)
, 2h40Directed by Indra Kumar
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Aamir Khan, Manisha Koirala, Sharmila Tagore, Neeraj Vora, Anil Kapoor, Rani Mukherjee
Rating61%
Dev Karan Singh (Aamir Khan), a casanova and ambitious painter deep in debt, agrees to marry Anita (Deepti Bhatnagar), the daughter of Singhania (Dalip Tahil), a rich tycoon. Priya (Manisha Koirala), a music teacher for children, is engaged to Raj (Anil Kapoor), whom she has agreed to marry because he had helped her when she was in need. Priya and Dev meet on a cruise and fall in love. However, due to their already being engaged to other people, they agree to work everything out and meet in 6 months on Valentine's Day to get married.
Yugpurush (1998)
Genres Drama
Actors Nana Patekar, Jackie Shroff, Manisha Koirala, Ashwini Bhave, Mohnish Bahl, Shivaji Satam
Roles Mrs. Mohan
Rating62%
Anirudh (Nana Patekar) is released from a facility treating patients with mental ailments. Anirudh also happens to be an exceptional artist and does portraits of new people he meets. As he struggles with adjusting with the "normal" world, he encounters Sunita (Manisha Koirala), an escort and Ranjan (Jackie Shroff), the son of a renowned politician. Ranjan, is madly in love with Sunita but Sunita does not feel the same way about him. Anirudh is the only person to see beyond Sunita's seemingly comfortable and affluent existence and knows that deep down she is extremely sad and alone. They develop a special bond of friendship despite their vastly different personalities and backgrounds. Anirudh also becomes good friends with Ranjan. Ranjan is a good-hearted but egotistical man who cannot bear even the thought of failure in any aspect of his life.
Tamanna (1998)
, 2h7Directed by Mahesh Bhatt, Ashutosh Gowariker
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Musiques du monde, Musical films, Bollywood, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Paresh Rawal, Pooja Bhatt, Manoj Bajpayee, Sharad Kapoor, Ashutosh Rana, Akshay Anand
Roles Kaushalya, servant of the Chopra family
Rating70%
The year is 1975, the place is Mahim, Bombay. This is the story of Tikku (Paresh Rawal), a eunuch, the only child of yesteryear Bollywood actress Nazneen Begum. She has fallen upon hard times, is virtually destitute and is dependent on Tikku, who does make-up/hair-dressing of Bollywood actresses. When she passes away, Tikku is beside himself with grief. After the funeral, he witnesses a woman leaving a child in a garbage bin. Tikku picks up the girl, longing for human company, decides to keep her, names her Tamanna, and brings her up on his own with the help of a close friend, Saleem (Manoj Bajpai).
Ek Phool Teen Kante (1997)
Actors Vikas Bhalla, Vikas Bhalla, Monica Bedi, Kiran Kumar, Sulabha Deshpande, Saeed Jaffrey
Rating62%
Ghulam-E-Mustafa (1997)
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Politic
Actors Nana Patekar, Raveena Tandon, Paresh Rawal, Aruna Irani, Mohnish Bahl, Mohan Joshi
Roles Kavita's Mother (uncredited)
Rating66%
The film revolves around a gangster named Mustafa (Patekar) who is a contract killer and can go any limit to please his superiors and offers 5 times Namaz. He was adopted by a powerful don Shanta Prasad (Rawal) when he was a child. He calls Shanta as Abba (an Urdu term for father). Abba taught him the crime tactics and made Mustafa his weapon for his illicit crimes. Mustafa's only aide is Sudama, his childhood best friend. Abba shares enmity with the Verma brothers Mahesh, Rohan and Bipin (Pradhan, Joshi and Bahl) which the trio wants to kill Abba. Meanwhile, a dancer Kavita (Tandon) who works in Verma's dance club. Mustafa falls for her which heats up enmity of Vermas and Mustafa. Kavita meets Mustafa and he tells his life's history to which Kavita develops a soft core for Mustafa. He marries her and love blossoms. But this happiness does not last long as Kavita gets killed in a car blast (a plan hatched by Vermas to kill Abba instead). Her death made Mustafa realise his mistakes and wants to end up giving up crime. He kills Mahesh's son by planting a bomb on his forehead. He goes to Dixit's house where he is disliked by them but his heart warming nature wins the Dixit's family's heart. Abba is happy that Mustafa is recovering from his trauma and helps Vikram (Joshi) for his education and job, bails out Dayanand Dixit (Satam) by false crimes and helps Vidya to marry Arun (Behl). Meanwhile Bipin's lustful eyes falls on Vidya. During elections Mustafa involves in a brawl where he kills Mahesh and his Rohan in a bomb blast and helps the politician Imtiaz to win. Mustafa now wants to surrender himself to police and refuses to work for Imtiaz and Abba anymore. Imtiaz orders Abba to kill Mustafa in fear that in future he will confess the crimes of Imtiaz and Abba. In the wedding night, Bipin enters the house and tries to rape Vidya but Mustafa slits him brutally with a mirror piece. Police arrives and Mustafa is about to surrender but before he wants to marriage ceremony to be complete. Abba arrives and offers Mustafa to continue his work again but he refuses. Mustafa offers Namaz for thanking Allah. Helpless, Abba has no other option but to obey the orders of Imtiyaz and finally orders his men to shoot Mustafa and kills him. A hearbroken yet angered Sudama then kills Abba.
Raja Ki Aayegi Baaraat (1997)
Actors Rani Mukherjee, Sulabha Deshpande, Shadaab Khan, Javed Khan Amrohi, Javed Khan, Gulshan Grover
Roles Kaushalya
Rating36%
Mala works as a school-teacher and had a great dream that her bridegroom will arrive on a horse and her marriage will be done in a great pomp and ceremony. One day her friend confides in her about her love affair with the son of a wealthy man, who has been intimate with her, but now is marrying someone else. Mala accompanies her friend to this male's wedding, disrupts it, and eventually ends up getting it cancelled. The groom's friend, Raj, is enraged and insults Mala, in response to which she slaps him. Enraged all the more, Raj seeks Mala out, and in the presence of her pupils, brutally slaps and then rapes her by getting off her clothes. Then she walks without any clothes with her pupils who hides her body with umbrella as it was raining and all the passers-by beholds her, and when her father looks her in this way he throws a piece of cloth on her to cover her body . The police get involved and Raj is arrested.