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Dina Pathak was an Indian actress and director of Gujarati theatre and also a film actor. She acted in over 120 films in a career spanning over six decades and won several awards, including the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award.
Oct 11, 2002 · Dina Pathak was a versatile actress who worked in Hindi and Gujarati films and theatre for six decades. She was a social activist, a fashion designer, and the mother of Ratna and Supriya Pathak.
- ‘People Were Her School of Acting’
- ‘Acting Was The Cornerstone of Her Existence’
- ‘The Many Dinas’
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That was my mother. Or, at least, a very important part of her. She loved people. They were her laboratory, her school of acting training. They were her university of ideas. I don’t think that she had read or researched much but instead had picked up all she knew by being with interesting people – poets, writers, musicians, dancers, scholars, scien...
She once befriended a lady and her three daughters on a trip to Shirdi. For years after that, she had many a delicious South Indian meal at their home in Thane (she would travel that far to meet them), got involved in their hunt for the right boys for the girls and more important, the right girl for their only son, attended the weddings and regaled...
Then there was the major diversion (some called it a sell-out) via the cinema and housekeeping and child rearing. At all these various stages, I maintain that she underwent crucial and sometimes fundamental changes in personality to fit in. Like the character in Woody Allen’s film Zelig, each time she became a slightly different person – a person l...
Ratna Pathak Shah, daughter of the renowned stage and film actor Dina Pathak, shares her personal memories and admiration for her mother in a heartfelt essay. She recounts how Dina Pathak was a versatile, passionate and people-oriented performer who influenced many with her talent and warmth.
- Ratna Pathak Shah
Mar 4, 2019 · A tribute to the versatile actress who redefined the image of the mother and grandmother in Hindi cinema. Learn about her roles in Gulzar, Shyam Benegal and Hrishikesh Mukherjee films, and how she brought realism and humour to her performances.
May 14, 2021 · Dina Pathak was a versatile and influential actor in Hindi and Gujarati films and theatre. She also led the National Federation of Indian Women and revived the Bhavai folk theatre in Mumbai.
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Mar 13, 2022 · For the ‘80s kid in India, veteran actress Dina Pathak was the quintessential Hindi film ma; much the same way that Reema Lagoo was for the ’90s kid. This month, she would have turned 100.
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Oct 11, 2002 · MUMBAI: Veteran film actress and a doyen of Gujarati theatre, Dina Pathak, who essayed variety of roles with natural ease and elan, passed away after prolonged illness on Friday.
