10 Facts About Gajanan Jagirdar

Gajanan Jagirdar was a veteran Indian film director, screenwriter and actor.

Gajanan Jagirdar worked in Hindi Cinema, called Bollywood, as well as Marathi cinema.

Gajanan Jagirdar was appointed as the first director of the Film and Television Institute of India in 1960 which was known as Film Institute of India then.

Gajanan Jagirdar was associated with the Prabhat Film Company three decades before his FTII role, when the campus was the base of the Prabhat.

Gajanan Jagirdar became a well-known pedagogue applying the acting theories of Stanislavsky to the prevailing local conditions.

Gajanan Jagirdar was born on 2 April 1907 in Amravati, a city in Amravati district, which was a part of the erstwhile Bombay Presidency of British India.

Gajanan Jagirdar started acting as a child actor in the amateur stage.

Gajanan Jagirdar began his film career in 1931 as a scenarist and assistant director in Prabhat Film Company and became a full-fledged film director only two years later in 1934.

Gajanan Jagirdar was awarded the best actor award for his portrayal of the poet Parshuram in the film Shahir Parshuram by Government of Maharashtra in 1962.

Gajanan Jagirdar died of a heart attack on 13 August 1988 at his residence in Bombay, aged 81.