Girish karnad biography in kannada movie

Indian playwright, actor, director, and writer (1938-2019)

Girish Karnad (19 May 1938 – 10 June 2019)^[1] was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer,^[2] playwright and a Jnanpith awardee, who predominantly worked in Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi films.

Girish karnad biography in kannada movie

His rise as a playwright in the 1960s marked the coming of age of modern Indian playwriting in Kannada, just as Badal Sarkar did in Bengali, Vijay Tendulkar in Marathi, and Mohan Rakesh in Hindi.^[3] He was a recipient of the 1998 Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour conferred in India.^[4]

For four decades Karnad composed plays, often using history and mythology to tackle contemporary issues.

He translated his plays into English and received acclaim. His plays have been translated into some Indian languages and directed by directors like Ebrahim Alkazi, B. V. Karanth, Alyque Padamsee, Prasanna, Arvind Gaur, Satyadev Dubey, Vijaya Mehta, Sh