Kyaw Hein
Kyaw Hein | |
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ကျော်ဟိန်း | |
Born | Kyaw Htay 14 July 1947 |
Died | 11 July 2020 | (aged 72)
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1968–2008 |
Spouse(s) | Sanda (1960s–1970s) Than Nwe Aye |
Children | Aye Nyein Thu Khin Khin Kha Nay Winn Seint Seint Thu Pann Phyu Hmwe Poe Tu |
Parents |
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Relatives | Dwe (nephew) |
Awards | Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards (1979, 1982, 1989, 1994, 2003) |
Website | https://www.athithedi.com |
Kyaw Hein (ကျော်ဟိန်း, [tɕɔ̀ héɪɰ̃]; born Kyaw Htay, 14 July 1947 – 11 July 2020) was a Burmese retired actor, film director and singer. He is the five-time winner of the Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards. He starred in and directed hundreds of films, and was considered one of the most important actors in Burmese cinema.[1] He retired in 2008, and became a Theravada Buddhist monk,[2] with the Dharma name Kittisāra (ကိတ္တိသာရ). He died as a monk on July 11, 2020 in Canberra, Australia.[3]
Early life
Kyaw Hein was born on July 14, 1947 on the Kyaung Kone Road in Sanchaung township. His father was a retired District Police Chief named John Maung Sein (DYSP) and his mother was a housewife named Cho Cho. He is the fourth child of six children. At an early age he joined the Sein Goli gang.
In 1952 he was taught at a ABM school from first to fourth grade. He failed the fourth grade exam and had to retake during the two summer holidays. In 1956, he moved to the Ahlone Township. He attended fifth grade at Unit Karen School near Home Road Station. In 1957, he moved again within the township to the Cushion School and attended sixth grade, seventh grade (twice), eighth grade and failed ninth grade (twice), then decided to dropped out. In 1964 he had moved from various of townships and in total transferred to 23 different Yangon Private schools (including night schools). He later dropped out of school on 16 different occasions and became homeless. In 1965, he moved to Kamaryut township. He successfully passed ninth grade at Daw Thar Htet School. In 1966, Dagon Township. Daw Nu Nu Khin helped Kyaw Hein enrolled to the tenth grade, but he joined the Navy after only three months at his private school. His ID number is 12205 and he left the Navy in 1967. He return to finish the tenth grade and passed. He later entered the film industry.
Career
Kyaw Hein made his film debut with 1968's Hpuza Lanzon at age 20, but became widely known with his fourth film called Chit Tha-La Mon Tha-La.[4] In 1970 his wife Sandrauuuu entered the film industry and started her career as an actress. He has played multiple roles, most notably in movies such as 1979's A-Ka Ga A-Chit A-Hnit Ga Myitta (အကာကအချစ်၊ အနှစ်ကမေတ္တ), 1982's Mun-Tet Chein Hma Ne Win Thi (မွန်းတည့်ချိန်တွင် နေဝင်သည်), 1989's Pan Myaing Le Ga U-Yin Hmu (ပန်းမြိုင်လယ်က ဥယျာဉ်မှူ),and 2003's Nay Ga Mway De La (နေကမွေးတဲ့လ). All the pervious mention movies led him to win four National Actor Awards and one Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Motion Picture for a total of five Academy Awards. An honorable mention of his movie 1985’s Kyaee Yaung Saungsaw Daung (ကျီးယောင်ဆောင်သောဒေါင်).
In 1970, four years entering the film industry, he directed his first film Sein Shoet Mahote Sein (စိန်သို့မဟုတ်စိမ်). Kyaw Hein was also the lead designer and hand-painted the advertising poster under the pen name Nay Min Hteik Khaung (နေမင်းထိပ်ခေါင်). He was later nationally praised for directing the movie 1982's Mun-Tet Chein Hma Ne Win Thi (မွန်းတည့်ချိန်တွင် နေဝင်သည်).
Kyaw Hein also wrote many short stories and some novels. He was, at the time, the highest paid actor in television commercials. He also collaborated with many Burmese Musicians and even produced some of his own. The last film he directed was Kyaoe Taan (ကြိုးတန်).
In total he had made and starred in over 222 films in 1967 to 2008 (over 41 years), 362 video films, and has written fourteen songs and six books.
Monastic life
On November 4, 2008, Kyaw Hein retired from the film industry and became a theravada monk. Before becoming a monk, Kyaw Hein traveled all over Burma, calling it Kyaw Hein's last farewell visit. He was ordained a monk on July 11, 2020 at 9:27am Burmese Standard Time in Canberra. He acquired the pseudonym Sayadaw U Kittithara as his proper name. Many people have criticised him for holding sermons at monasteries without the time nor experience of learning buddhism as a monk.
In 2008 Sayadaw U Kittithara was one of the patron monk who helped the creation of the Bronze Buddha Image of Knowledge and Awareness at Botahtaung Pagoda in the Botataung Township, Yangon Region. Some has referred the temple as Kyaw Hein's temple after his conturbations.[citation needed]
Death
He had a stroke three years before his death which led to his deterioration his health. Sayadaw U Kittithara died on July 11, 2020 at 12:55 in Canberra from complications after a stroke[5] at the age of 73. His nephew, Htin Lin ( Dwe ), died on July 11, 2007, coinciding with the date of their deaths.[6]
Filmography
- Hpuza Lanzon (1968)
- Chit Tha-La Mon Tha-La
- Kanyar Pyo Nae Zayar Ao (ကညာပျိုနဲ့ဇရာအို) (1972)
- A-Ka Ga A-Chit A-Hnit Ga Myitta (အကာကအချစ်၊ အနှစ်ကမေတ္တ) (1979)
- Mun-Tet Chein Hma Ne Win Thi (မွန်းတည့်ချိန်တွင် နေဝင်သည်) (1982)
- Pan Myaing Le Ga U-Yin Hmu (ပန်းမြိုင်လယ်က ဥယျာဉ်မှူ) (1989)
- Sone Yay (စုန်ရေ) (1990)
- Wai Lae Mhway Kyway Lae Mhway (ဝေလည်းမွှေးကြွေလည်းမွှေ) (1994)
- Nay Ga Mway De La (နေကမွေးတဲ့လ) (2003)
- Ashaik (Also Known As: Taste of Evil)[7]
- Kyaee Yaung Saungsaw Daung (ကျီးယောင်ဆောင်သောဒေါင်) (1985)
- Sein Shoet Mahote Sein (စိန်သို့မဟုတ်စိမ်)
- Kyaoe Taan (ကြိုးတန်)
Discography
Album
- Let The Tear Birds Perch (မျက်ရည်ငှက်များ နားစေသတည်း)
- Gentlemen, Please Applaud (လူကြီးမင်းများ လက်ခုပ်တီးပါ)
- Yin Mar Tin Set Mu (2) (ယင်းမာတင်ဆက်မှု (၂))
- Self Wind Sailing (တစ်ကိုယ်တော်လေလွင့်ခြင်း)
- Songs From The Stage (စင်ပေါ်က သီချင်းများ)
- Meaningful Person (အဓိပ္ပါယ်ရှိသောလူ)
- Forever Living (ထာဝရရှင်သန်နေမယ်)
- Wi Ra Ra Tha (ဝီရရသ)
- New (အသစ်)
- Dote Dote Dote Dote (ဒုတ် ဒုတ် ဒုတ် ဒုတ်)
- Modern Antique (မော်ဒန်အင်းတစ်ခ်)
- Meaningful (အဓိပ္ပါယ်ရှိသော)
- November - 11 (နိုဝင်ဘာ - ၁၁)
- The Next (It was eventually used as the theme song in the Kyaw Hein video.)[8]
Books
Man Life
- Say It On My Behalf (ကျွန်တော့်ကိုယ်စားပြောပေးပါ ) (Novel) (1975, 2nd 1984)
- Colorful Pieces (ရောင်စုံအပိုင်းအစများ ) (Short Stories) (2002, 2nd 2008)
- Sate Dar Pya - Dwe's Memorabilia Letter (စိတ်ဓားပြ - ကွယ်လွန်သူ ဒွေးရဲ့ အမှတ်တရစာ)
- Many Kyaw Heins (ကျော်ဟိန်းများ ) (Kyaw Hein's Forty Years History) (16-November-2009)
- Acting Book (သရုပ်ဆောင်ကျမ်း)
- Complete White (လုံးဝအဖြူ) (Comic Story Book)(1st+2nd) (About Kyaw Hein)
Monk Life
- Sate Dar Pya Thay Char Lar...Tae (စိတ်ဓားပြ သေချာလား . . . တဲ့)
- Lesson (သင်ခန်းစာ)
- For The Reason The Question Emerged (မေးခွန်းဖြစ်လာရတဲ့ ဖြစ်ကြောင်းကြောင့်) (October-2009)
- Let go of the feelings you feel (ခံစားနေတဲ့စိတ်ကို စွန့်လွှတ်လိုက်ပါ) (December-2009)
References
- ^ Birmanie Myanmar. Petit Futé. p. 109. ISBN 978-2-7469-1599-2.
- ^ Nilar (28 July 2008). "Life as monk for actor Kyaw Hein". The Myanmar Times. Myanmar Consolidated Media Co. Ltd. Archived from the original on 29 April 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2008.
- ^ "ဒွေးကွယ်လွန်ခြင်း ၁၃ နှစ်ပြည့်နေ့တွင် မင်းသားကြီး ကျော်ဟိန်း (ဦးကိတ္တိသာရ) သြစတြေးလျနိုင်ငံ၌ ကွယ်လွန်". Eleven Media Group Co., Ltd (in Burmese). Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- ^ Sandah Aung (2 December 2002). "The Myanmar king of rock and reel". The Myanmar Times. Archived from the original on 28 January 2008. Retrieved 4 November 2007.
- ^ ဦးပဉ္ဇင်း ဦးကိတ္တိသာရ (မင်းသားကြီး (ဦး) ကျော်ဟိန်း) ရဲ့ သမီး မခင်ခင်ခ နဲ့ ဘီဘီစီ ဆက်သွယ်မေးမြန်းချက် (in Burmese)
- ^ "ဒွေးကွယ်လွန်ခြင်း ၁၃ နှစ်ပြည့်နေ့တွင် မင်းသားကြီး ကျော်ဟိန်း (ဦးကိတ္တိသာရ) သြစတြေးလျနိုင်ငံ၌ ကွယ်လွန်". Eleven Media Group Co., Ltd (in Burmese). Retrieved 13 September 2020.
- ^ The New York Times – Ashike
- ^ "အသိသတိ - ဦးကိတၱိသာရရဲ႕ အတၳဳပၸတၱိအက်ဥ္း". www.athithedi.com. Retrieved 13 September 2020.