Sulabha Deshpande
Biography
Sulabha Deshpande (1937 – 4 June 2016) was an Indian actress and theatre director. Apart from Marathi theatre and Hindi theatre in Mumbai, she acted in over 73 mainstream Bollywood films.
She also performed in art house cinema such as Bhumika (1977), Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan (1978), and Gaman (1978) as a character actor, along with numerous TV series and plays.
A leading figure in the experimental theatre movement of the 1960s, she was associated with Rangayan, and personalities like Vijay Tendulkar, Vijaya Mehta, and Satyadev Dubey.
In 1971, she co-founded the theatre group Awishkar with her husband Arvind Deshpande and also started its children's wing, Chandrashala, which continues to perform professional children's theatre.
In later years, she acted in serials such as Jee Ley Zara, Ek Packet Umeed, and Asmita and in films such as English Vinglish.
She was born and brought up in Mumbai, where she studied at Siddhartha College in Fort, Mumbai, and later received a degree in education.
She was married to noted theatre actor-director, Arvind Deshpande, who died in 1987.
Sulabha Deshpande died on 4 June 2016 in Mumbai, after a prolonged illness. She was cremated the next day.
