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- He wrote English plays because the existing, substandard translated plays couldn’t appeal to the Indian urban audience. In 1986, during the Deccan Herald Theatre Festival, Dattani wrote his first play, Where there is a Will, in English. The festival applauded the play with “... laughter, laughter, and laughter.
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Sep 16, 2022 · Winner of the Sahitya Akademi award in 1998, Mahesh Dattani is one of the foremost Indian playwrights writing in English. Born to Gujarati parents in Bengaluru on 7 th August 1958, Dattani studied in the local Baldwin Boys’ High School, an English medium Christian missionary school where his only brush with theatre came in the form of a ...
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This moment explains the reason that Dattani chose English as the language to write in, and McRae argues: When challenged [for writing in English] at a recent seminar at the University of Bangalore [with the question], “why don’t you write in your own language?”[Dattani’s] reply, with a gentle disarming smile, was “I do”. (p.9)
After reading Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? early in his life, he became interested in writing. He was also influenced by Gujarati playwright Madhu Rye 's Kumarni Agashi and developed an interest in play writing.
This liberal use of language exhibits Dattani’s favour to write effective plays in English oncontemporary Indian issues: I am reluctant playwright. I would choose to direct first before, I write. But I wanted more plays written primarily in English language for Indian audience. (Nair, The Invisible Observer) The use of English language has ...
The plays of Mahesh Dattani emerged as ‗fresh arrival‘ in the domain of Indian English Drama in the last decade of the twentieth century. The plays have a great ‗contemporary‘ value.
Jan 1, 2008 · Mahesh Dattani is perhaps one of India`s most daring, innovative and important paywrights in English today. He blends conventional themes with some startingly new ones in his work.
Dattani has also used English to give a voice to the marginalised communities in India. His plays often explore themes related to gender, sexuality, and identity, and he has used English to...
