Sangeet Natak Akademi Awardee Usha Ganguly Passes Away

Usha-Ganguly

This bit of news will appear to be terrible for all theater darlings! Noted theater character and female authority of the well known performance center gathering, Rangakarmee, Usha Ganguly is no more. Purportedly, she inhaled her last in the wake of enduring a heart failure on Thursday morning. She was 75.

Usha was one of the renowned names in the Hindi performance center circuit in Kolkata. Conceived in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, she was an educator in a school in Kolkata, when she entered the universe of theater as an entertainer. She turned into a piece of the Sangit Kala Mandir in 1970 and acted in her first play titled Mitti Ki Gadi.

In 1976, she built up her own performance center organization Rangakarmee which belted well known plays like Mahabhoj , Rudali , Himmat Mai and others. Under her direction, Rangakarmee got one of the main performance center gatherings in the nation. Indeed, it turned into the main Indian auditorium gathering to perform at the Theater der Welt Festival in Stuttgart in 2005.

She additionally took a shot at the content of Ajay Devgn-Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s 2014 film Raincoat, which depended on O Henry’s The Gift of the Magi.

Usha was consulted with Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Direction in 1998. She was likewise regarded by the West Bengal Government as the best on-screen character for the play Gudia Ghar. We give our sincere sympathies to her family!