Vishnupant Pagnis

Vishnupant Pagnis was an actor in Marathi theatre. At the age of 10 he joined Janubhau Nimkar`s Swadesh Hitachintak Natak Mandali in Kolhapur as an actor of female roles. His portrayals of Deval`s Sharada and Shakuntala in command performances for Shahu Maharaja won him popularity. He gained fame for creating the heroines of Warerkar`s first play Kunjavihari or `Wanderer in Gardens` in 1908 and Govindrao Tembe`s Shivraj Natak Mandali production in Hindi of Manishankar Trivedi`s Siddha-sansar or `Successful Life` in 1916. The style of the celebrated Gujarati female impersonator, Jaishankar Sundari, is said to have influenced him. He appeared in Warerkar`s early silent film, Poona Raided in 1924. After his Sangitnatak career flagged, he taught music in a municipal school. A last-minute casting decision for the eponymous role in the successful movie Sant Tukaram or `Saint Tukaram` in 1936, he went on to play the lead in such``saint` films as Sant Tulsidas in 1939, Narsi Bhagat in 1940, and Mahatma Vidur in 1943, and grew famous as a Kirtan singer. He also headed a short-lived theatre company, Jagchhitradarshak Natak Mandali. Vishnupant Pagnis died in 1943.

Actor:

• 1940s
• 1930s
• 1920s

1. Mahatma Vidur (1943) .... Vidur
2. Narsi Bhagat (1940) .... Narasinh Mehta
   
   
3. Sant Tulsidas (1939/I) .... Tulsidas
   ... aka "Saint Tulsidas" - India (English title)
4. Sant Tulsidas (1939/II) .... Tulsidas
   ... aka "Saint Tulsidas" - India (English title)
5. Sant Tukaram (1936) .... Tukaram
   
   
6. Poona Raided (1924)
7. Surekha Haran (1921)

8. Sant Tukaram (1936)

Composer:

1. Sant Tulsidas (1939/I)
   ... aka "Saint Tulsidas" - India (English title)
2. Sant Tulsidas (1939/II)
   ... aka "Saint Tulsidas" - India (English title)