VETERAN ACTRESS SULBHA DESHPANDE PASSES AWAY IN MUMBAI

TNI News Service (TNS)

Webdesk, TNI Mumbai 4^th June, 2016: After a prolonged illness the veteran theatre and film actress Sulabha Deshpande, passed away today at her residence. She was known to be a household name in the eighties and nineties when she acted in most of the Tele serials on Doordarshan (DD1) and DD metro. Apart from this, she had acted in numerous Marathi and Hindi films. At the time of her death she was 79. Deshpande featured in several Marathi and Hindi films. In Hindi, the noteworthy films in which she appeared included “Bhumika” (1977), “Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan” (1978) and “Gaman” (1978). In recent years, she had appeared in Gauri Shinde-directed “English-Vinglish”. She was associated with “Rangayan”, a pioneering Marathi experimental theatre group, along with noted play writer Vijay Tendulkar, Vijaya Mehta, and Satyadev Dubey. In 1971 she co-founded the theatre group ‘Awishkar’ with her husband Arvind Deshpande (who died in 1987).