Win Oo

Win Oo (Burmese: ဝင်းဦး; pronounced [wɪ́ɰ̃ ʔú], 13 March 1935 – 14 December 1988) was a two-time Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards winning Burmese actor, singer, director, writer and publisher. He became publicly known for his acting, singing and directing. Win was considered one of the most important actors in history of Burmese cinema. He died of Colorectal Cancer in 1988.

Win Oo
ဝင်းဦး
Born
ဂွေးတို

(1935-03-13)13 March 1935
Yangon, Myanmar
Died14 December 1988(1988-12-14) (aged 53)
Yangon, Myanmar
Other namesဝင်းအု
OccupationActor, singer, director, writer and publisher.
AwardsMyanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards (Best Leading Actor for 1967, 1970)

Youth

Win Oo was born as Hla Myint in Yangon to his parents U Ba Nyunt (Chit-Dukkha) and Daw Hnin Yi. He studied at TTC Teacher Training College. In 1952, he left his university education and joined the Burmese Army. He was honourably discharged from the army as a captain in 1962.[1]

Career

His first starring movie was "Hna-Yauk Hte Nay-Gyin-De", adapted from a novel of his with the same name. But this movie was not his first film in Cinema. " Chit-Thaw-Thu-Ta-Yout" was his first film in cinema but this movie was not successful. He both directed and starred in Saung Einmet and Hmon Shwe Yee. He founded the Sanda movie company, established first "color offset printer" in Burma, established "Sanda Magazine Office" and published Sanda Magazine.[2] He won numerous Myanmar Academy Award for his performances, including Best Actor for 'Hmon Shwe Yee' in 1970. He starred in 27 films, before passing away in 1988. He wrote 31 novels. His most famous book is "Main ma Hla Ah Mone".[1]

Legacy

He is best known for his image, acting, unusual voice, and way of speaking and singing,[3] which some artists often imitate as a fun way of entertainment,[4] especially in traditional live performances on the stage.[5] The BBC (Myanmar) described that in Myanmar, not many artists have great success beyond their age and grave, and that Win Oo is one of the few whose success and influence extend till these days. The late Hla Htut, a famous Myanmar pianist and composer, remarked that his use of low-pitched, nasal and legato voices in several songs like "Maung Do Cherry Myay" ( Our Cherry Land) and his voices of interjection in such songs as "Mee Pon Pwe" (bonfire) and "Ma Ma Moe" (Lady Moe) were quite distinct and earned his place in the category of remake-western songs in Myanmar. He directed and appeared as an actor in many films; in "Ah Twe Ah Tar", an unusual film for that time because no actress appeared; the main roles are a child-actress and him only, and in a self-directed film, "Chit Thu Yway Mae` Chit Ware Le`" he acted in an octa-role with many actresses, which he even made it successful in spite of lack of high film-technology for that period. "Hmon Shwe Yi" is one of his prominent works, through which some elements and aspects of Myanmar Stage Performance and Entertainment can be observed. Last but not least, his love for songs by Myoma Nyein and participation in Mandalay Thingyan festival over a decade is still considered to be a cultural icon in Myanmar.[3]

Filmography

Awards
Year Award Category Nominated work Result
1967 Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards Best Actor Saung Einmet Won
1970 Hmone Shwe Yee Won

References
  1. Phyo Sandar Myint (7 August 2013). "မြန်မာ့အနုပညာလောက၏ စွယ်စုံအနုပညာရှင် အကယ်ဒမီ ဝင်းဦး" [Academy-winner Win Oo, a multi-talented artist in the Myanma entertainment industry (literature, music and films] (in Burmese). Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  2. Kyaw Hsu Mon (29 August 2015). "Laughter, the best medicine". The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 16 May 2020. In the 1960s, Maung Maung’s work appeared in “Sandar,” a popular magazine published by actor Win Oo.
  3. Bo Bo (18 December 2018). "နှုတ်ခမ်းမွေးမင်းသား ဝင်းဦးရဲ့ အမြတ်နိုးဆုံးအနုပညာက ဘာလဲ" [What’s the type of the arts the mustache actor 'Win Oo' admires best?]. BBC Myanmar (in Burmese). Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  4. Mg Thit Hlaing (3 April 2019). "ကျွန်တော်လွမ်းဆွတ်မိသော အသံတုအနုပညာ" [Vocal mimicry, for which I feel quite nostalgic] (in Burmese). Retrieved 16 May 2020. သူ့အမူအယာ၊ သူ့အသံသည်လည်း တစ်မူကွဲပြားနေသော အသံရှင်ဖြစ်၏။ “ မှုံရွှေရည် '၊ ' ဆောင်းအိပ်မက် '၊ ' ကျောက်မဲအကျဉ်းသား 'ဇာတ်ကားများသည် လူကြိုက်များသောရုပ်ရှင်ဇာတ်ကားများ ဖြစ်သောကြောင့် အသံတုပညာရှင်များက မင်းသားကြီးဝင်းဦး ၏အသံကိုအပိုင်တုပနိုင်၏။
  5. Mg Thit Hlaing (19 February 2015). "ဖန်တီးသူတို့အပြော၊ ခံစားသူတို့အမြင်" [talks of the creators, opinions of the audience] (in Burmese). Retrieved 16 May 2020. …နေတိုးက နှင်းဆီအငြိမ့် … နာမည်ကြီးအဆိုတော် တွေရဲ့အသံတွေကို တုပပြီး အသံတုလုပ်ဆိုတဲ့နေရာမှာလည်း တော်တယ်။ ဥပမာ-တွံတေးသိန်းတန်တို့၊ ဝင်းဦးတို့ပေါ့။
  • Cartoon Win Aung's famous artist published in 2006.
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