NFAI acquires Jaishankar Danve’s personal collection Updated: Updated: It includes actor-director’s handwritten literary work, rare archival photographs and albums Share Article AAA Treasure trove: The Danve family handing over the collection to NFAI director Prakash Magdum (left) in Kolhapur.
It includes actor-director’s handwritten literary work, rare archival photographs and albums Carrying on with its yeoman service of preserving memorabilia from the ‘Golden Age’ of Indian cinema, the National Film Archive of India (NFAI) has now acquired the personal collection of noted yesteryear actor-director Jaishankar Danve. A celebrated thespian of the Marathi stage and screen who also worked in Hindi cinema, Danve, who was born in Pune in 1910, was especially memorable in villainous and anti-heroic roles. He was also noted for his skilled stage direction in his illustrious career of more than five decades until his death in 1986. He started out as a stage artiste in Marathi and Urdu theatre, apprenticing with the legendary Bhalji Pendharkar — a cousin of the great V. Shantaram.