Girish Karnad life style, images, career, write hindi movies and other Biography
Born : Girish Raghunath Karnad 19 May 1938 (age 75)
Matheran, British India (present-day Maharashtra, India)
Occupation : Playwright, film director, film actor, poet
Nationality : Indian
Alma mater : University of Oxford
Genres Fiction
Literary movement : Navya
Notable work(s) : Tughalak 1964 Taledanda
Early on life and edification
Girish Karnad was natural in Matheran, Maharashtra. His first
schooling was in Marathi. In Sirsi, Karnataka, he was showing to travelling
theatre groups, Natak Mandalis as his parents were intensely concerned in their
stage. As a youngster, Karnad was an passionate
admirer of Yakshagana and the plays in his rural community. His family enthused
to Dharwar in Karnataka when he was 14 years old, where he grew up with his two
sisters and niece.
He earned his Bachelors of Arts degree in Mathematics and
Statistics, from Karnatak Arts College, Dharwad (Karnataka University), in
1958. Winning graduation Karnad punctually went to England and intentional
Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Lincoln and Magdalen colleges in Oxford
as a Rhodes Scholar (1960–63), earning his Master of Arts degree in philosophy,
political science and economics.
Job
Behind functioning with the Oxford University Press, Chennai
for seven years (1963–70), he resigned to take to symbols full-time. Even as in
Chennai he got concerned with local part-time theatre group, The Madras cast
list.
Throughout 1987–88, he was at the University of Chicago as
Visiting university lecturer and Fulbright Playwright-in-Residence. All through
his occupancy at Chicago Nagamandala had its world premiere at the Guthrie
Theater in Minneapolis based on Karnad's English translation of the Kannada unique.
The majority, he served as director of the Nehru Centre and as Minister of
Culture, in the Indian High payment, London (2000–2003).
He served as director of the Film and Television organization
of India (1974–1975) and chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, the National
Academy of the the theater Arts (1988–93).
Literature
Girish Karnad in 2010
Karnad is identified as a dramatist. His acting, written in
Kannada, have been translated into English and some Indian languages. Karnad's drama
are written neither in English, in which he unsuccessfully dreamt of earning
international fictional celebrity as a poet, nor in his mother dialect Konkani.
as an alternative they are collected in his adopted language Kannada.
Initially, his rule on Kannada was so meager that he often botched to tell
between between small and long vowels (laghu and deergha). When Karnad in
progress writing plays, Kannada writing was highly subjective by the new start
in Western literature. Writers would wish a topic which looked fully alien to appearance
of local soil. C. Rajagopalachari's story of the Mahabharat published in 1951,
left a deep impact on him and soon, sometime in the mid-1950s, one day he knowledgeable
a rush of dialogues vocal by font from the Mahabharata in his adopted language
Kannada. "I could in fact hear the dialogues being oral into my ears... I
was just the scribe," said Karnad in a later conference. Sooner or later
on Yayati was in print in 1961, At what time he was 23 years old. It is based
on the story of King Yayati, one of the family of the Pandavas, who was cursed
into early old age by his preceptor, Shukracharya, who was exasperated at
Yayati's unfaithfulness. Yayati in turn asks his sons to forfeit their youth
for him, and one of them agrees. It ridicules the ironies of life through font
in Mahabharata. It became an instant victory, right away translated and staged
in numerous other Indian languages.
In a site like that Karnad found a new come lock to like picture
historical and fairy-tale sources to undertake modern themes, and
existentialist crisis of modern man, through his typescript locked in
psychological and philosophical conflicts. His next was Tughlaq (1964), about a
impetuously optimist 14th-century Sultan of Delhi, Muhammad bin Tughluq, and metaphor
on the Nehruvian era which in progress with striving idealism and ended up in disappointment.
This well-known Karnad, now 26-years old, as a promising playwright in the
country. It was staged by the National School of Drama Repertory under the track
of Ebrahim Alkazi, with the actor Manohar Singh, in concert the visionary king
who anon becomes disheartened and turns bitter, amidst the historic Purana Qila
in Delhi. It was later theatrical in London by the National School of Drama for
the carnival of India in 1982.
Hayavadana (1971) was based on a theme wan from The
Transposed Heads, a 1940 novella by Thomas Mann, which is first found in the
11th-century Sanskrit text Kathasaritsagara. Herein he working the folk theatre
form of Yakshagana. A German version of the play was bound for by Vijaya Mehta
as part of the range of the Deutsches National Theatre, Weimar. Naga-Mandala
(Play with Cobra, 1988) was based on a folk tale linked to him by A. K.
Ramanujam, brought him the Karnataka Sahitya Academy Award for the Most original
Work of 1989. It was bound for by J. Garland Wright, as part of the revelry of
the 30th birthday of Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis. The theatre subsequently custom-built
him to write the occupy yourself, Agni Mattu Male (The Fire and the Rain). Despite
the fact that before it came Taledanda (Death by Beheading, 1990) which used
the backdrop, the rise of Veerashaivism, a fundamental protest and reform
movement in 12th century Karnataka to bring out current issues.
Movies
Karnad completed his performing as well as screenwriting
debut in a Kannada movie, Samskara (1970), based on a novel by U.R.
Ananthamurthy and directed by Pattabhirama Reddy. That film won the first
President's fair Lotus Award for Kannada cinema. Above the years he had acted
in a number of Hindi and Kannada feature films and worked with directors like
Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen and Shyam Benegal. In TV, he played the function of
Swami's priest in the small screen series Malgudi Days (1986–1987), based on R.
K. Narayan's books.
He made his managerial debut with Vamsha Vriksha (1971),
based on a Kannada novel by S.L. Bhairappa. It won him National Film Award for
Best Direction along with B. V. Karanth, who co-directed the film. Afterward,
Karnad bound for several movies in Kannada and Hindi, counting Godhuli (1977)
and Utsav (1984). Karnad has made number of documentaries, like one on the
Kannada poet D. R. Bendre (1972), Kanaka-Purandara (English, 1988) on two
medieval Bhakti poets of Karnataka, Kanaka Dasa and Purandara Dasa, and The
Lamp in the Niche (English, 1989) on Sufism and the Bhakti movement. Many of
his films and documentaries have won several national and international awards.
Some of his celebrated Kannada show include Tabbaliyu
Neenade Magane, Ondanondu Kaladalli, Cheluvi and Kaadu and most recent film
Kanooru Heggaditi (1999), based on a novel by Kannada writer Kuvempu.
His Hindi movies include Nishaant (1975), Manthan (1976),
Swami (1977) and Pukar (2000). He has acted in a number of Nagesh Kukunoor
films, starting with Iqbal (2005), where Karnad's role of the cruel cricket
coach got him critical approval. This was followed by Dor (2006), 8 x 10
Tasveer (2009), with lead actor Akshay Kumarand Aashayein (2010).
He came back to Hindi movies after three years. He played a
key role in Yash Raj Film's movie Ek Tha Tiger.
Karnad has acted in the Kannada gangster movie Aa Dinagalu.
Other distinguished works
He has been the accent of APJ Abdul Kalam, former leader of
India, in the audiobook of Kalam's autobiography by Charkha Audiobooks Wings of
bonfire.
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