Ank Turns 50: Preeta Mathur Thakur Revives Dinesh Thakur’s Legacy With New Play on 'Veera Rani Abbakka'

Appropriately, it all started with a play. Basu Bhattacharya saw the Om Shivpuri-directed play, Aadhe Adhoore, which premiered in Delhi in 1969, and impressed with Dinesh Thakur’s performance, offered him the parallel lead in Anubhav. The actor-playwright-director subsequently bagged other films like Mere Apne, Rajnigandha and Zaroorat and moved to Mumbai. In 1976, missing the stage, he founded his own...