Uttara Baokar

Uttara Baokar was an Indian stage film and television actress She acted in several notable plays such as Padmavati in Mukyhamantri Mena in Mena Gurjari Desdemona in Shakespeares Othello the mother in playwright Girish Karnads Tughlaq the nautch girl in Chhote Saiyad Bade Saiyad and the lead role of Umrao in Umrao Jaan In 1978 she directed Jaywant Dalvis play Sandhya Chhaya translated to Hindi by Kusum Kumar In 1984 she won the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Acting Hindi theatre She appeared in Marathi films such as Doghi 1995 Uttarayan 2005 Shevri 2006 and Restaurant 2006 Description above from the Wikipedia article Uttara Baokar licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia