Gajanan jagirdar biography of martin
A vintage collection of photographs of veteran actor, director and producer Gajanan Jagirdar is now part of the collection at the National Film Archive of.
Gajanan Jagirdar, an all-encompassing artiste was probably the first freelancer of Indian films....
Gajanan Jagirdar
Indian actor
Gajanan Jagirdar (2 April 1907 – 13 August 1988) was a veteran Indian film director, screenwriter and actor.
He worked in Hindi Cinema, also called Bollywood, as well as Marathi cinema. The period of 1942 to 1947, saw his rise as a film director with Prabhat Films.[1][2]
He was appointed as the first director (then principal) of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in 1960 which was known as Film Institute of India then.
Jagirdar served as the director of the FTII for just over a year, from 1961 to 1962.
Qaidi No. 911, poster, (aka CONVICT NUMBER 911), poster, Gajanan Jagirdar, Honey Irani, Daisy Irani, 1959.He was associated with the Prabhat Film Company three decades before his FTII role, when the campus was the base of the Prabhat.
He became a well-known pedagogue applying the acting theories of Stanislavsky to the prevailing local conditions.
At the 1962National Film Awards his film Vaijayanta was awarded the Second Best Marathi Feature Film.[3]
Early life
Gajanan Jagirdar was born on 2 Apr