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Vilas Ghogre

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DOB : 01-06-1947
Age : 77
Star Sign : Gemini
Gender : Male

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Vilas Ghogre was born in a small village near Mumbai in the state of Maharashtra on 1 June 1947. His family belonged to the working class. His father was a laborer and his mother was a housewife. He began developing great interest in education, music, and issues concerning social justice from childhood. He later shifted to Mumbai for schooling and soon joined various social movements, most of them concerning Dalit rights. Ghogre's intervention in the Dalit Panther movement of the 1970s was, in a way, the beginning of his artistic and literary creation, as well as his activist career. The Dalit Panther movement sought to abolish caste discrimination with a view to the upliftment of the Dalit community.

Ghoghre was a musician and poet whose forte lay in writing, mostly protest songs in Marathi, against social injustice, caste oppression, and the cry for equality. Vilas Ghogre, too, drifted towards cinema, but as a filmmaker and an actor; most of his works smacked of activism in one way or the other. One of his relatively critically better-accepted film contributions was the movie Chakra (1981) directed by Rabindra Dharmaraj, the movie depicts the harsh reality of life in Mumbai's slums. He soon acquired the status of a cult film and landmark in both Marathi and Hindi cinema because of its raw, stark portrayal of the lives of the urban underclass. Though he was not expected to have a long list of commercial blockbusters, his works in the independent and parallel cinema segments enjoyed due respect. Many of his films and artistic contributions have been utilised by this director to bring more awareness to various societal issues rather than the mere box office blockbusters.