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Mahesh Dattani (born 7 August 1958) is an Indian director, actor, playwright and writer. He wrote such plays as Final Solutions, [1] Dance Like a Man, Bravely Fought the Queen, On a Muggy Night in Mumbai, Tara, Thirty Days in September 2007 [2] [3] and The Big Fat City .
Mahesh Dattani was born on August 7, 1958 in Bangalore, Karnataka. He was educated at Baldwin’s Boys High School followed by St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore. After graduation, he briefly worked as a copywriter for an advertising firm. In 1986, his first play, “Where There is a Will” surfaced.
Sep 16, 2022 · Winner of the Sahitya Akademi award in 1998, Mahesh Dattani is one of the foremost Indian playwrights writing in English.
Mar 14, 2018 · Mahesh Dattani is just 43 and is, by all accounts, the country’s most lauded contemporary playwright in English. Labelled by theatre scholars as the definitive voice of modern urban India, he was honoured by the Sahitya Akademi with their distinguished award in 1998.
Playwright Mahesh Dattani on Dance, Drama and Failed Dreams. In an email interaction with Hindustan Times, Mahesh Dattani explains what is the enduring appeal of the play Dance Like A Man....
Oct 11, 2021 · Mahesh Dattani is one such writer who has unveiled the hypocrisy of patriarchal order and has brought to our notice the discrimination and injustice done to women in our society. Dattani is one of the highly acclaimed playwrights in the Indian dramaturgy writing in English. He has added a new dimension to the Indian drama in English.
Mahesh Dattani is a leading dramatist. Described as 'one of India's best and most serious contemporary playwrights writing in English' by Alexander Viets in the International Herald Tribune, he was the first playwright in English to be awarded the Sahitya Akademi award.
Dec 7, 2019 · Mahesh Dattani, an award-winning playwright and director, has established an immensely successful career doing this. The MIT Post had the chance to converse him during m.i.l.ap. 2019 and perceive his ideas on theatre and drama.
Jul 15, 1996 · Mahesh Dattani, 38-going-on-28, is a playwright, actor, director, producer, theatre group (Playpen) boss, businessman and, by the time you read this, something else as well. advertisement.
Bravely Fought the Queen: Dramatic Craftsmanship. Mahesh Dattani makes daring efforts to depict quite unconventional and radical themes in his plays. The complexities of human relationship and predicament of the modern man find due expression in his dramatic works.
