Girish Karnad dies: Nation mourns the loss of great actor and noted playwright
5 years, 7 months ago

Girish Karnad dies: Nation mourns the loss of great actor and noted playwright

India TV News  

Political leaders, theatre personalities and artists from the entertainment industry, on Monday, condoled the death of Girish Karnad, saying they will miss the brilliance of the iconic playwright-actor-director and his immense contribution to art and culture. Anil Kapoor remembered the old times and tweeted, "I met Girish Karnad way back when he was the principal of the film institute & then worked with him in Pukar. Actor Shruti Haasan also took to Twitter and wrote, "May you rest in peace Girish Karnad sir. A flame has been extinguished that lit up so many minds" Bollywood actress Divya Dutta also tweeted, "RIP Girish Karnad sir. Rahul Gandhi tweeted, "Playwright, actor, director but above all a great human being, in Girish Karnad’s passing India has lost a beloved son, whose memory will live on in the vast treasure trove of creative work he leaves behind.My condolences to his family & fans around the world."

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Veteran Marathi actor Vijay Kadam dies of cancer at 68
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Veteran Marathi actor Vijay Kadam dies of cancer at 68

Hindustan Times  

Veteran Marathi theater and film actor Vijay Kadam died in Mumbai on Saturday, as confirmed by family sources. Vijay Kadam started his career as a child actor in theater and earned fame in comedy roles in the 1980s. Kadam, who considered yesteryear actors Sharad Talwalkar and Raja Gosavi as his idols, went on to do diverse roles on stage as …

Remembering Girish Karnad, playwright and activist
7 months ago

Remembering Girish Karnad, playwright and activist

The Hindu  

Eminent playwright, writer and actor Girish Karnad passed away at the age of 81 on June 10, 2019, at his Bengaluru residence due to multiple organ failure. Girish Karnad: life in pictures 1 / 3 Karnad has written plays for over half a century, exploring identity and desire, reworking myths and questioning traditional morality. Three years after his death, the …

'We lost a gem!' Fans get emotional at Satish Kaushik's demise
1 year, 10 months ago

'We lost a gem!' Fans get emotional at Satish Kaushik's demise

India Today  

Veteran actor-director Satish Kaushik passed away on Thursday, March 9. Brought smiles on million facesâ€æ 🙏 Om Shanti#bollywoodmovies #SatishKaushik pic.twitter.com/jX7RRx7Z9i — vipin chaudhary March 9, 2023 Can't believe #SatishKaushik sir is no more with usðŸ˜â💔 Rest in peace sir🙏 thank you for giving iconic character Radhe. RIP legend pic.twitter.com/BVVIvczW7e — àä àäªàäèàä¾ BollywoodðŸŽå March 9, 2023 Miss you sir, too …

Satish Kaushik passes away: Late actor's last film was Kangana Ranaut's Emergency
1 year, 10 months ago

Satish Kaushik passes away: Late actor's last film was Kangana Ranaut's Emergency

India Today  

The entire country woke up to the tragic news of actor-director Satish Kaushik’s sudden demise. SATISH KAUSHIK'S LAST FILM Given an illustrious career in Indian cinema, the veteran actor had starred in several iconic comic roles throughout. He played the role of late Defence Minister Jagjivan Ram in the historical movie which revolves around the troubled period of India’s Emergency …

Govinda mourns Satish Kaushik's loss: An actor who made any character memorable with his sheer hard work
1 year, 10 months ago

Govinda mourns Satish Kaushik's loss: An actor who made any character memorable with his sheer hard work

India Today  

Actor Govinda, whose chemistry with Satish Kaushik became famous in the many comedies they featured in the 90s and early 2000s, remembered the actor-filmmaker as someone who improvised a lot before his scenes, often writing dialogues to bring in more laughs. Govinda, who has acted in many films with Kaushik most notably in Saajan Chale Sasural, Deewana Mastana, Bade Miyan …

How Girish Karnad embraced many Indias in his life and work
3 years, 4 months ago

How Girish Karnad embraced many Indias in his life and work

Live Mint  

In 2011, when Girish Karnad released his autobiography, Adaadata Ayushya, the Kannada literary world’s response was mixed—surprise, disbelief and disagreement. “That’s not true,” many argued about episodes from his public life, “there are other sides to the story.” Disagreements, counter-stories, and retelling of incidents with altered focalisation could be attributed to the inevitable subjectivity of narration, taking us back to …

This Life At Play: Even with its declared omissions, Girish Karnad's 'half-tale' memoir is a complex, nuanced narration
3 years, 6 months ago

This Life At Play: Even with its declared omissions, Girish Karnad's 'half-tale' memoir is a complex, nuanced narration

Firstpost  

While This Life At Play is far from what one might call a contemplative work, blithely letting its roll-call of occurrences speak for itself, its descriptive linearity ultimately settles into a sharply individualistic if unsentimental account. Quietly released last month even as the world of arts and letters observed his 83rd birth anniversary, Girish Karnad’s This Life At Play is …

Girish Karnad's memoir, translated from Kannada into English, to be published in May
3 years, 11 months ago

Girish Karnad's memoir, translated from Kannada into English, to be published in May

Firstpost  

Girish Karnad’s memoir, which was to be translated from Kannada into English by the actor-playwright himself but could only finish a part of it before his death in 2019, will now be out in May after final touches by award-winning translator Srinath Perur. This Life at Play: A Memoir by Girish Karnad will be released on the director’s 83rd birth …

House mourns ex-members, Karnad
5 years, 5 months ago

House mourns ex-members, Karnad

The Hindu  

The Legislative Assembly mourned the death of 12 former legislators and Kannada writer and Jnanpith Award winner Girish Karnad on the first day of the extended budget session on Friday. Shivalinge Gowda, S.S. Arakeri, Damayanthi Bore Gowda, Channaveera Shantiah Muttinapendi Mutt, Vijaykumar Khandre, H. Gopal Bhandari, Sharadavva M. Pattana, B.N. Members also paid their respects to writer, playwright, actor, and …

Girish Karnad: Staging our times
5 years, 6 months ago

Girish Karnad: Staging our times

The Hindu  

“You are a learned man…. Not in this market place of corpses.” I have sometimes wondered if these lines spoken by Barani the historian to Tughlaq in Girish Karnad’s play came back to Karnad with an unexpected nuance when he was hounded, trolled and threatened for paying a tribute to Tipu Sultan as a great figure in Karnataka’s history after …

Girish Karnad, the greatest Kannadiga of his age
5 years, 6 months ago

Girish Karnad, the greatest Kannadiga of his age

Hindustan Times  

Girish Karnad, who died in his sleep in his Bengaluru home last week, was a colossus. Girish Karnad seeks blessing from fromer PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee before receiving the 34th Jnanpith Awards, New Delhi, 1999. After Gauri Lankesh was murdered in September 2017, it was rumoured that Girish Karnad was the next writer on the terrorist hitlist. I thus had …

Remembering Girish Karnad: Quasar Thakore-Padamsee, Abhishek Majumdar on how the playwright influenced their craft
5 years, 6 months ago

Remembering Girish Karnad: Quasar Thakore-Padamsee, Abhishek Majumdar on how the playwright influenced their craft

Firstpost  

Girish Karnad, veteran playwright, writer, director, actor and Rhodes Scholar, passed away on 10 June, 2019, aged 81, at his Bengaluru residence after a prolonged illness. The incredible act of wearing the placard that said ‘Me too urban naxal’ at a conference showed he literally wore what he felt on his sleeve.” Thakore-Padamsee also recalls the many times his father …

‘A pan-Indian reach’: Sadanand Menon remembers Girish Karnad
5 years, 6 months ago

‘A pan-Indian reach’: Sadanand Menon remembers Girish Karnad

The Hindu  

The 2013 Ranga Shankara theatre festival, in Bengaluru, commemorated Girish Karnad’s 75th birthday with nine Karnad plays. On the last day, at a symposium on ‘Politics in Karnad’s Plays’, I had attempted a critical evaluation of his works, suggesting they lacked political force as they insufficiently interrogated the nation state, unlike, say, the plays of Heisnam Kanhailal. I’m referring to …

Girish Karnad and his democratic art: KM Chaitanya recounts experience of making a film on the playwright
5 years, 6 months ago

Girish Karnad and his democratic art: KM Chaitanya recounts experience of making a film on the playwright

Firstpost  

Girish Karnad was filmed twice by director KM Chaitanya for his documentaries on the artiste in Kannada and English. I just stitched the various interviews to make a cohesive whole.” While shooting in Kannada, Chaitanya also filmed some portions of the English version, for which he asked renowned Kannada playwright, Vivek Shanbag, to have a free-wheeling chat with Karnad. A …

The untold story of Girish Karnad
5 years, 6 months ago

The untold story of Girish Karnad

Live Mint  

Bengaluru: Girish Karnad did not create a spectacle out of his death. The ideal of the end matched with the details of Karnad’s own father’s cremation, about which he wrote in the autobiography he published in Kannada, in 2011, titled Aaadaadtha Aayusha : “Bappa was an atheist. To the many questions and curiosity that we may have about Karnad’s life, …

Remembering Girish Karnad: From senior to peer, lessons the thespian taught me in theatre — and life
5 years, 6 months ago

Remembering Girish Karnad: From senior to peer, lessons the thespian taught me in theatre — and life

Firstpost  

Girish Karnad’s word, his voice always meant something. Even if it rakes up a controversy — like the Tagore one — he couldn’t for a minute, despite being unwell, not call a spade a bloody shovel. His multi-lingual expertise and his ability to write such beautiful prose, steeped in tradition yet years ahead of its time, is only among the …

Remembering Girish Karnad: Among India's literary greats, his versatility made him unique
5 years, 6 months ago

Remembering Girish Karnad: Among India's literary greats, his versatility made him unique

Firstpost  

Girish Karnad, without doubt, was one of the greatest literary figures of Indian literature. Girish Karnad’s plays exemplified his generation’s transformative practices, but also bore his distinctive mark Girish Karnad was just 23 when he wrote Yayati, the play that brought him centre-stage in the national consciousness. If you look up Girish Karnad’s Wikipedia page, you will find my name …

NFAI to screen Girish Karnad's Ondanondu Kaladalli, Kanooru Heggadithi as tribute to veteran actor
5 years, 6 months ago

NFAI to screen Girish Karnad's Ondanondu Kaladalli, Kanooru Heggadithi as tribute to veteran actor

Firstpost  

National Film Archive of India will be paying homage to playwright-actor Girish Karnad by screening several of his films, including Ondanondu Kaladalli and Kanooru Heggadithi National Film Archive of India will be paying homage to veteran playwright and actor Girish Karnad, who passed away on Monday. The NFAI will be honouring the theatre stalwart by screening some of his acclaimed …

Girish Karnad passes away: Master Manjunath revisits fond memories of working with him during Malgudi Days
5 years, 6 months ago

Girish Karnad passes away: Master Manjunath revisits fond memories of working with him during Malgudi Days

Firstpost  

Former child actor Manjunath, more popular known with the prefix ‘Master’, shared a warm, loving relationship with the late Girish Karnad in the 1980s. In Utsav, the Hindi film directed by the litterateur-actor-playwright, he played Charudatta’s son, and in RK Narayan’s Malgudi Days, directed by the late Shankar Nag, he played Swami, whose strict father was essayed eloquently by Mr …

Girish Karnad shared a strong bond with Dharwad
5 years, 6 months ago

Girish Karnad shared a strong bond with Dharwad

Deccan Chronicle  

Hubballi: The death of eminent playwright, Girish Karnad, has sent shockwaves in the literary world in Dharwad, which he had a special bond with, being seen as its cultural ambassador. Having done his high school at the Basel Mission and graduated from the prestigious Karnataka Arts College in Dharwad, Karnad went on to hugely contribute to the city’s literary environment. …

End of an Era
5 years, 6 months ago

End of an Era

Deccan Chronicle  

After battling a prolonged illness, actor, director and noted playwright Girish Karnad passed away on Monday at his residence in Bengaluru. Scene from Swami Veteran actor Anupam Kher’s association with him goes back to the time when Karnad directed him in Utsav. I was happy to cast him in my film because I knew his professionalism and talent,” says Amit, …

Girish Karnad: life in pictures
5 years, 6 months ago

Girish Karnad: life in pictures

The Hindu  

Girish Raghunath Karnad, veteran playwright, actor, filmmaker, and theatre personality, passed away on June 10, 2019. Karnad made his cinema debut in 1970 in the critically-acclaimed Kannada movie 'Samskara', based on U. R. Anantamurthy's novel by the same name. In this file photo, Karnad is seen with writer Arundhati Roy and social activist Mahasweta Devi addressing a press conference under …

Girish Karnad passes away: Satish Shah credits playwright for his, Naseeruddin Shah and Om Puri's acting careers
5 years, 6 months ago

Girish Karnad passes away: Satish Shah credits playwright for his, Naseeruddin Shah and Om Puri's acting careers

Firstpost  

Girish Karnad served as the director of the Film and Television Institute of India from 1974 to 1975 Girish Karnad ’s death brought a sense of shock among the theatre and film fraternity on Monday as the veteran succumbed to a prolonged illness at his Bengaluru residence. On his demise, actor Satish Shah wrote a heartwarming message about Karnad, thanking …

One man, many crafts: An era ends with Girish Karnad
5 years, 6 months ago

One man, many crafts: An era ends with Girish Karnad

The Quint  

Bengaluru: Fans gather at the residence of Girish Karnad - a Jnanpith winner, multi-lingual scholar, master playwright, screenwriter, actor, director and a colossus in India New Delhi, June 10 For the 1980s' kids who tasted TV time with 'Malgudi Days', Girish Karnads portrayal as Swamis stern father, has remained an indelible memory. As for his films, the National Film Archive …

Girish Karnad cut across linguistic and regional boundaries to become a nationally revered figure
5 years, 6 months ago

Girish Karnad cut across linguistic and regional boundaries to become a nationally revered figure

Firstpost  

“I want to climb up to the tallest tree in the world and call out to my people, ‘Come, my people, I’m waiting for you. I’m waiting to embrace you all!” These lines are from Girish Karnad’s play Tughlaq, a fictionalised version of the life of Muhammad bin Tughlaq, the so-called ‘wise fool’ — in Karnad’s retelling, Tughlaq comes across …

Girish Karnad passes away: Karnataka govt announces one-day holiday to mourn thespian's demise
5 years, 6 months ago

Girish Karnad passes away: Karnataka govt announces one-day holiday to mourn thespian's demise

Firstpost  

Karnataka government declared a state-wise holiday on Monday and three-day-mourning to observe the demise of Girish Karnad Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy announced a state holiday on Monday, 10 June, to mourn the demise of veteran actor-playwright Girish Karnad. “It will be a holiday today for one day for all government offices, schools and colleges due to the sudden demise …

Girish Karnad's plays exemplified his generation's transformative practices, but also bore his distinctive mark
5 years, 6 months ago

Girish Karnad's plays exemplified his generation's transformative practices, but also bore his distinctive mark

Firstpost  

The following post, written by Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker, appears as the introduction to Girish Karnad’s ‘ Collected Plays Volume One', published by Oxford University Press. During the 1961-77 period, therefore, each successive play by Karnad marks a departure in a major new direction and the invention of a new form appropriate to his content — ancient myth in Yayati, 14th-century …

President Kovind and PM Modi condole demise of Girish Karnad
5 years, 7 months ago

President Kovind and PM Modi condole demise of Girish Karnad

India TV News  

Karnad passed away at the age of 81 after a prolonged illness in Bengaluru. Girish Karnad was a veteran actor, director, and playwright, who won a lot of awards for his remarkable performances. President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday condoled the demise of veteran playwright and actor Girish Karnad, saying he will be remembered for his …

Girish Karnad passes away; Ali Abbas Zafar says he was 'the guiding force' behind Tiger Zinda Hai
5 years, 7 months ago

Girish Karnad passes away; Ali Abbas Zafar says he was 'the guiding force' behind Tiger Zinda Hai

Firstpost  

“It is a personal loss because I have had so many great conversations with Girish Karnad during the making of Tiger Zinda Hai,” says Ali Abbas Zafar. Bharat director Ali Abbas Zafar says the demise of Girish Karnad, veteran actor, director and Kannada playwright, is a huge loss to the nation. For me, it is a personal loss because I …

Reactions to Girish Karnad’s death | Political, cultural leaders pay tribute
5 years, 7 months ago

Reactions to Girish Karnad’s death | Political, cultural leaders pay tribute

The Hindu  

Veteran actor, writer, playwright, director and Jnanpith Awardee Girish Karnad died at the age of 81 in Bengaluru on June 10. Our cultural world is poorer today: President Ram Nath Kovind “Sad to hear of the passing of Girish Karnad, writer, actor and doyen of Indian theatre. “Playwright, actor, director but above all a great human being, in Girish Karnad’s …

Girish Karnad passes away: Narendra Modi, Shashi Tharoor, Shabana Azmi among others tweet condolences
5 years, 7 months ago

Girish Karnad passes away: Narendra Modi, Shashi Tharoor, Shabana Azmi among others tweet condolences

Firstpost  

Girish Karnad passed away on Monday morning aged 81, after suffering a prolonged period of illness. pic.twitter.com/AdjnFttRJO — Sitaram Yechury June 10, 2019 With the demise of noted actor, writer and Jnanpith Awardee Girish Karnad, we have lost a great personality of Indian cinema, especially theatre. Deepest condolences to his family, friends & fans!#GirishKarnad — Devendra Fadnavis June 10, 2019 …

Veteran actor-playwright Girish Karnad passes away at 81
5 years, 7 months ago

Veteran actor-playwright Girish Karnad passes away at 81

India TV News  

Veteran actor and playwright Girish Karnad has passed away at the age of 81 in Bengaluru due to prolonged illness. Karnad, a recipient of Jnanpith Award, was also conferred the Padma Shri in 1974 and the Padma Bhushan in 1992. Also, read President Kovind and PM Modi condole demise of Girish Karnad Girish Karnad passes away, remembering his remarkable work …

Noted playwright, actor and Jnanpith awardee Girish Karnad dies at 81
5 years, 7 months ago

Noted playwright, actor and Jnanpith awardee Girish Karnad dies at 81

The Hindu  

Girish Karnad, well-known writer, playwright, actor and public intellectual, passed away early on June 10 in Bengaluru. Magazine: The multifaceted Girish Karnad says theatre is not dead A highly regarded public intellectual, he often became the target of the Hindutva right, most notably for his views on Mysuru king Tipu Sultan, on whom he has authored a play. I think …

Girish Karnad, veteran actor, director and playwright, passes away aged 81 at Bengaluru residence
5 years, 7 months ago

Girish Karnad, veteran actor, director and playwright, passes away aged 81 at Bengaluru residence

Firstpost  

National Award-winning Kannada director Girish Karnad breathed his last at his Laveli Road, Bengaluru residence after battling prolonged illness. Veteran actor, director and playwright Girish Karnad has passed away aged 81 at his Laveli Road residence in Bengaluru after prolonged illness. ANI tweeted the news of Girish Karnad’s death Girish Karnad, veteran actor and playwright, and Jnanpith awardee, passed away …

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