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Astad Deboo

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DOB : 13-07-1947
Age : 77
Star Sign : Cancer
Gender : Male

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Astad Deboo was born on July 13, 1947, into a Parsi family in Navsari, Gujarat, India. He was raised in Kolkata until he was six years old, at which point his family moved to Jamshedpur, where his father worked for Tata Steel. He has two sisters, Kamal and Gulshan, and his mother was a stay-at-home mom. Deboo began studying Kathak dancing at the age of six with the late Indra Kumar Mohanty and Prahlad Das. After graduating from Loyola School in Jamshedpur in 1964, he traveled to Mumbai and enrolled in a bachelor's program in commerce at Podar College, University of Mumbai. Deboo was a choreographer and an Indian contemporary dancer. In India, he was regarded as a modern dance pioneer.

He performed all over the world and worked with artists such as Pina Bausch, Alison Becker Chase, and Pink Floyd during his career. In 1996, Deboo received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, and in 2007, the Indian government presented him with the Padma Shri. A month after receiving a non-Hodgkins lymphoma diagnosis, Deboo passed away in Mumbai on December 10, 2020, at the age of 73.