Background
He was born on 21 September 1914 at Ganjam in the Indian state of Odisha in a Brahmin family and took to folk dancing.
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Bhagaban Sahu
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Career
He was credited with efforts to revive the traditional Odissi dance forms such as Baagh Naach (Tiger dance), Stilt dance, Jodi sankha, Laudi, Paika dance and Chadheia chadheiani. He taught the villagers about these dance forms and trained them on the art He was the choreographer of the popular tiger dance sequence in the 1989 Bengali movie, Bagh Bahadur, directed by Buddhadev Dasgupta.
Sahu"s life has been documented in a biography, Folk Legend Baghaban Sahu, written by Sujata Patnaik, and published by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
He died on 12 August 2002, a month before turning 88.
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India