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- He wrote English plays because the existing, substandard translated plays couldn’t appeal to the Indian urban audience.
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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.
Sep 16, 2022 · Winner of the Sahitya Akademi award in 1998, Mahesh Dattani is one of the foremost Indian playwrights writing in English.
After reading Edward Albee’s play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf in his early life, Dattani became interested in writing. He was influenced by Gujarati playwright Madhu Rye’s Kumarni Agashi and developed interest in play writing.
Dattani’s plays probes tangled attitudes in contemporary India towards communal differences, consumerism and gender discrimination. It’s a brilliant contribution to Indian English drama.
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Mar 29, 2016 · Dattani’s plays have been performed around the world and he is the first English-language playwright to have won India’s premier literary honor – the Sahitya Akademi award. Dattani is also a renowned director and recently finished working on Barnard College’s Chokher Bali .
Mahesh Dattani is the first Indian English dramatist who wrote Indian plays in English and was not content with the usual western canonical texts that were generally performed when he founded his own
