M. S. Sathyu

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Template:Short description Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person Mysore Shrinivas Sathyu (born 6 July 1930) is a film director, stage designer and art director from India. He is best known for his directorial Garm Hava (1973), which was based on the partition of India.<ref name=mint>Template:Cite news</ref> He was awarded Padma Shri in 1975.<ref name="secund" />

Early and personal life

Born into a Kannada family, Sathyu grew up in Mysore. He pursued his higher education at Mysore and later Bangalore. In 1952, he quit college while working on his Bachelor of Science degree. Sathyu is married to Shama Zaidi, a north Indian Shia Muslim. They have two daughters.

Career

He freelanced as an animator in 1952–53. After being unemployed for nearly four years, he got his first salaried job as assistant director to filmmaker Chetan Anand.He worked in theatre as a designer and director, including designing sets and lights for productions of Hindustani Theatre, Okhla Theatre of Habib Tanvir, Kannada Bharati and other groups of Delhi. In films, he has worked as an art director, camera-man, screenwriter, producer and director. His first film. His fas an independent Art director or Haqeeqat, a film by Chetan Anand, which won him recognition and the 1965 Filmfare Award for Best Art Direction. His filmography includes over 15 documentaries and 8 feature films in Hindi, Urdu and Kannada.<ref name="secund">Barnouw, Erik, and S. Krishnaswamy, Indian Film, New York and London, 1963.</ref>

His best known work, Garm Hava (Scorching Winds, 1973), is one of the last cinema productions featuring 1950s Marxist cultural activists including Balraj Sahni and Kaifi Azmi. Garm Hava won several Indian national awards in 1974, including a National Integration Award.<ref name="thurd"> Chakravarty, Sumita S., National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947–1987, Austin, Texas, 1993</ref> It was screened in the competitive section at Cannes and was also the Indian entry at the Oscars. It won the Filmfare award for best screenplay.<ref name="prime">Azmi, Kafi and Shama Zaidi, Three Hindi Film Scripts, 1974.</ref>

M. S. Sathyu currently is associated mainly with television and stage. In 2013, Sathyu featured in the popular Google Reunion ad, where he played the role of Yusuf, an elderly Pakistani man who is reunited with his childhood pre-partition friend from India, Baldev (Vishwa Mohan Badola).<ref name="indianexpress">Template:Cite news</ref> The commercial went viral on social media.<ref name="hindu142">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Sathyu is one of the patrons of Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA). He directed musical play Gul E Bakavali written by Sudheer Attavar; represented 8th World Theatre Olympics in year 2018 . He also directed plays like 'Dara Shikoh', Amrita, Bakri, Kuri, Akhri Shama and many more. In 2014, his debut film, Garm Hava was re-released after restoration.

Awards

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Production

Theatre plays

  • Gul E Bakavali musical Play written by Sudheer Attavar
  • Dara Shikoh written by Danish Iqbal
  • Mudrarkshas
  • Aakhri Shama
  • Rashmon
  • Bakri ("Kuri" in Kannada)
  • Girija Ke sapne
  • Mote Ram Ke Sathyagrah
  • Emil's Enemies
  • Amrita :

Films

Feature Films

  • Ek Tha Chotu Ek Tha Motu
  • Garm Hawa (Hot Wind) 1973
  • Chithegu Chinthe 1978 - Screened at 7th IFFI.
  • Kanneshwara Rama (The Legendary Outlaw)
  • Kahan Kahan Se Guzar Gaya (1981)
  • Bara (Famine), based on a short story by U.R. Anantha Murthy (1982)
  • Sookha Hindi version of the Kannada movie Bara (1983)
  • Galige (1994) (Kannada)
  • Kotta (1999)
  • Ijjodu ( Kannada) 2009

Short films and Documentaries

  • Irshad
  • Black Mountain
  • Ghalib
  • Islam in India

Television

TV serials

  • Pratidhwani 1985
  • Choli Daaman 1987–88
  • Kayar (Coir) 1992
  • Antim Raja (The Last Raja of Coorg) 1986

Tele-films

  • Aangan
  • Ek Hadsa Char Pehlu
  • Thangam

Television and YouTube Advertisements

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