Gajanan Jagirdar: Gajanan Jagirdar. Actor: Ramshastri. First major freelance director-character actor in Marathi and Hindi cinema. Born in Amravati. Child actor on amateur stage. Started Arun Players in Pune and staged Chekov's Cherry Orchard and Harindranath Chattopadhyay's Returned from Abroad. Claimed Ernst Lubitsch's The Patriot (1928) as a major influence. Started in films as writer of English intertitles at Prabhat; then bit actor. Apprenticed to Bhalji Pendharkar. Made films for Master Vinayak's...
Known For: Ramshastri (Ramshastri), Vasantsena (Shakar), Suraj (Ram Singh(as Jagirdar)), Umrao Jaan (Maulvi)