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Indisputably one of the greatest ever actresses of the Marathi stage, Sunila Pradhan’s foray into theatre began with celebrated playwright P L Deshpande’s `Waryavarchi Varat`. Her long collaboration with Satyadev Dubey’s Theatre Unit started in 1969 and lasted 33 years, during which period she took the leading part in as many as 40 plays. These included almost every notable play written at the time by India’s leading playwrights Badal Sarkar,  Dharamvir Bharati, G P Deshpande, Vijay Tendulkar, Girish Karnad, Mahesh Elkunchwar and Nirmal Varma. The 1980s are rightly regarded as the Golden Period for theatre, and Sunila Pradhan, Satyadev Dubey and Amrish Puri formed the triumvirate which brought about this artistic renaissance.