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Filmmaker · India

Parshwanath Yeshwant Altekar

Died in 1957

Parshwanath Yeshwant Altekar was born in 1897 in Kharepatan, in the Ratnagiri district, studied in Kolhapur and then at Wellington College in Sangli, and began law in Bombay before turning to the theatre in 1922. An actor and director on the Marathi stage, linked to the Natyamanwantar group, he acted in silent historical films and then directed films in Marathi, Hindi, Tamil and Kannada. He died in 1957.

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