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OBITUARY PRAVIN JOSHI Pravin Joshi, one of the most dynamic figures on the contempo rary Gujarati stage, met vvith a fatal accident on January 1 9. He vvas 45. Groomed to be an actor in his student days, he crossed over naturally from the arena of inter-collegiate competitions to the professional Gujarat! theatre. Almost from the beginning of his career he vvas associated vvith the Indian National Theatre in Bombay. For the 1 NT he played the triple role of translator, actor and director. While he catered to the needs of the popular audience, he con sistently undertook experimental assignments . He adapted such plays as Arthur Miller's All My Sons and vvas the first to stage a Badal Sircar play in Bombay . This vvas a Gujarati version of Evarn /ndrajit. He directed these productions for I NT and also played lead roles in them . But one of the most distinctive of Pravin Joshi's productions vvas Ramji Vania's bhavai-oriented play, Moti Verana Chokrna. It vvas very deeply indigenous and imaginatively exploited the folk theatre traditions of Gujarat. 44 Pravin .Joshi must also be credited with giving to the Gujarati theatre two of its most promising playwrights. Madhu Rye's Kumarni Agashi, which he directed, is an original play and was invited some years ago to the Sangeet Natak Akademi festival in New Delhi. Rye's adaptation of Pygmalion was also staged by Pravin, and he played in it the role of Higgins opposite his wife Sarita's Eliza. Sitanshu Yashashchandra was the other playwright, whose Vaishakhi Koya/ Pravin directed a few years ago. In this and many other INT prbduc tions, he starred with Sarita. Widely travelled in the West, Pravin led an I NT troupe some years ago on a tour of the U .S. and Canada. With his death the Gujarati theatre has lost a cre ative genius when it sorely needed more like him. - DNYANESHWAR NADKARNI 45 .

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