Suryakant Mandhare

Suryakant
Born
Vaman Tukaram Mandhare

1925
Kolhapur, Bombay Presidency, British India
Died22 August 1999 (aged 73)
Pune, Maharashtra, India
NationalityIndian
Other namesSuryakant Mandhare
Occupations
  • Actor
  • director
  • producer
  • writer
  • sculptor
  • painter
Years active1938–1999
RelativesChandrakant Mandare (brother)

Vaman Tukaram Mandhare (1925–1999) professionally known as Suryakant was an Indian actor and director who worked in Marathi film industry and acted in more than 100 films.[1][2] Actor and artist Chandrakant Mandare is the elder brother of Suryakant.[3]

Suryakant begun his acting career at the age of twelve as a child artist in Bhalji Pendharkar's Dhruv, returned in 1943 film Bhahirji Naik, a second collaboration with Pendharkar. Pairing of Suryakant with the actress Jayshree Gadkar was very appriciated, appeared in 70 films together including Mohityanchi Manjula (1960), Subhadra Haran (1963), Sadhi Mansa (1965), Patlaachi Soon (1966). He is noted for ruralist 'gramin chitrapat' genre films like Anant Mane's Sangte Aika (1959) and Dinkar D. Patil's Malhari Martand (1965).[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ D. P. Mishra; India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (1 September 2006). Great masters of Indian cinema: the Dadasaheb Phalke Award winners. Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India. ISBN 978-81-230-1361-9. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
  3. ^ "Chandrakant Mandare". जिल्हाधिकारी कार्यालय, कोल्हापूर. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
  4. ^ Rajadhyaksha, Ashish; Willemen, Paul (10 July 2014). Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-94318-9.