Jabbar Patel

Jabbar Patel

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Jabbar Patel Profile

  • Name:
  • Jabbar Patel
  • Born:
  • June 23, 1942

Jabbar Patel Biography

Dr. Jabbar Patel is a leading film director of Marathi cinema. He is associated with theatre also and has directed many stage plays. He is better known as the director of English movie, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, the biopic for which Mammootty received National award for best actor in the year 1999. Though attempts had been done to release the movie in 8 Indian languages, the process is not completed yet. He won Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration for his Marathi film, Mukta in the year 1995. He has directed many landmark movies of Marathi cinema including Mukta, Samna, Ek Hota Vidushak, Umbartha, Simhasan and Jait Re Jait. He is the director of critically acclaimed Bollywood movie, Musafir released in 1986. He has also written the screenplay of Hindi movie, 'Aagey se right and has penned lyrics for the movie Samna as well.

 

Patel was born in 1942 in Pandharpur in Maharashtra. He did his schooling at Haribhai Deokaran High school, Solapur. Later he completed MBBS and became a pediatrician. Later he associated with theater and founded the Marathi experimental theatre group, 'Theatre Academy'. Vijay Tendulkar's Ghashiram Kotwal in 1973 and 'Teen Paishacha Tamasha' in 1974 are the noted plays staged under Theatre Academy.

 

In 1989, Dr Patel was approached by the Films Division to make a documentary on Ambedkar. He suggested that he may conduct deep research and travel abroad to collect data to make biopic of Ambedkar. He was given a carte blanche by Films Division head to shoot at Columbia University if he so wanted. From a long list, South Indian star Mammootty was chosen and it proved right too. Other noted movies directed by Patel include - Samna (1974), Jait Re Jait (1977, Ek Hota Vidushak (1992) and Maharashtra (1986).

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Updated: January 24, 2014

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