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Hayavadana (meaning: Horse face) is a 1971 Indian Kannada language two-act play written by Girish Karnad. The plot is based on Br̥hatkathā and Thomas Mann's retelling of Transposed Heads. Its twin play is Nagamandala (1988). Hayavadana presents the story of two friends Devdutta and Kapila; and their love interest Padmini.
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Bhagavata discovers a strange being with the head of a horse and the body of a man. At first, he believes that the horse head is a mask and tries to remove to no use. After a few futile attempts, Bhagavata realizes that the horse head is indeed real and the being is half-man, half-horse.
Hayavadana is a 1971 play by Indian writer Girish Karnad. It tells the story of best friends Devadatta and Kapila, and their love, Padmini, as well as that of a man in the story with the face of a horse (the title of the okat means “one with a horse’s head”) who is seeking to become human.
Hayavadana study guide contains a biography of Girish Karnad, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
“Hayavadana” is a play by Indian writer Grish Karnad. It was first published in 1971. The play was originally written in Kannada and Karnad translated it into English himself. Karnad writes ‘Hayavadana’ inspired by Thomas Mann’s – The Transposed Heads and Thomas Mann was inspired by an 11th-century Sanskrit text ‘Kathasaritsagaro’.
Girish Karnad (19 May 1938 – 10 June 2019) was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer, playwright and a Jnanpith awardee, who predominantly worked in Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi films.
Though Girish Karnad’s first language is Konkani, Hayavadana and most of his other works are written in what he considers his adopted language, Kannada. Karnad also translated the play into English himself.
Oct 27, 2021 · One of Girish Karnad’s most celebrated musical plays, which involves a plot within a plot that merges at a point. The play Hayavadana was published in the year 1972 and is inspired by the...
Influenced by Somadeva’ Kathasaritsagara and Thomas Mann’s The Transposed Heads, Girish Karnad wrote the drama Hayavadana. Critics like M. K. Naik, Kirtinath Kurtkoti, and P. Dhanavel, on the one hand, have discerned the presence of identity crisis in this drama.
