caption death_date death_place birth_name birth_place imagesize birth_date spouse yearsactive article_title name occupation
habib tanvir 8 june 2009 bhopal , madhya pradesh habib ahmed khan raipur , chhattisgarh 200 1 september 1923 moneeka mishra -lrb- 1930 -- 2005 -rrb- 1945 -- 2009 habib tanvir
 habib tanvir playwright , dramatist , poet , actor
habib tanvir

habib tanvir -lrb- 1 september 1923 -- 8 june 2009 -rrb- was one of the most popular indian urdu , hindi playwrights , a theatre director , poet and actor .
he was the writer of plays such as , `` agra bazar '' -lrb- 1954 -rrb- and `` charandas chor '' -lrb- 1975 -rrb- .
a pioneer in urdu , hindi theatre , he was most known for his work with chhattisgarhi tribals , at the naya theatre , a theatre company he founded in 1959 in bhopal .
he went on to include indigenous performance forms such as `` nacha '' , to create not only a new theatrical language , but also milestones such as `` charandas chor '' , `` gaon ka naam sasural , mor naam damad '' and `` kamdeo ka apna basant ritu ka sapna '' .
for him true `` theatre of the people '' existed in the villages , which he strived to bring to the urban `` educated '' , employing both folk performers as actors alongside urban actors .
he died on 8 june 2009 at bhopal after a three-week-long illness .
upon his death , he was the last of pioneering actor-managers in indian theatre , which included sisir bhaduri , utpal dutt and prithviraj kapoor , and often he managed plays with a mammoth cast , such as `` charandas chor '' which included an orchestra of 72 people on stage and `` agra bazaar '' with 52 people .
during his lifetime he won several national and international awards , including the sangeet natak akademi award in 1969 , padma shri in 1983 , kalidas samman 1990 , sangeet natak akademi fellowship in 1996 , and the padma bhushan in 2002 .
apart from that he had also been nominated to become a member of the upper house of indian parliament , the rajya sabha -lrb- 1972 -- 1978 -rrb- .
his play ` charandas chor ' -lrb- charandas , the thief -rrb- won him the fringe firsts award at edinburgh international drama festival in 1982 , and in 2007 , it was included in the hindustan times ' list of ` india 's 60 best works since independence which said : `` an innovative dramaturgy equally impelled by brecht and folk idioms , habib tanvir seduces across language barriers in this his all-time biggest hit about a robin hood-style thief '' as .
