Dina Pathak - Early Life

Early Life

Dina Pathak was born in Amreli - Gujarat on 4 March 1922. She was enamoured by fashion and films, and while a teenager started acting in plays and won rave reviews from the critics.

At a young age, she joined the Indian National Theatre as an actress. She attended college in Bombay (Mumbai), and became known for her student activism, where Bhavai theatre, a folk theatre form from Gujarat, was used extensively to create awareness about British rule, in the Pre-independence era; this led to her close association with Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA), along with her elder sister Shanta Gandhi and younger sister Tarla Mehta; while in Mumbai, she had an important hand in reviving the Gujarati theatre there, along with fellow Gujarati actors like Kailash Pandya and Damini Mehta

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