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- Habib Tanvir was born on September 1, 1923 in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. He was an actor and writer, known for Gandhi (1982), Charandas Chor and TV teatar (1956). He was married to Moneeka Misra. He died on June 8, 2009 in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
- SpouseMoneeka Misra
- Children
- Director of the Naya Theatre Company, which he founded in 1959. Tanvir did not start out planning to become a director. He had been an actor in the Indian People's Theatre Association in Bombay; when the company was arrested for opposing British rule, the IPTA administration sent word from inside the jail that Tanvir should take over and run the group. From Bombay he moved to Delhi, and went to England in 1955 to study at the Old Vic Theatre School, then returned to India to direct. He is also a journalist, dramatist, poet, and actor, and was a Member of Parliament for six years.
- He was a pioneer of Indian contemporary theater. He brought the stories, music, and dialect of folk theater to the stage. He often used non-professionally-trained village performers in his works.
- Father of actress and Music Composer Nageen Tanvir.
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