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  1. 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.

  2. Jun 6, 2024 · Girish Karnad (born May 19, 1938, Matheran, Bombay Presidency [now in Maharashtra], India—died June 10, 2019, Bengaluru, Karnataka) was an Indian playwright, author, actor, and film director whose movies and plays, written largely in Kannada, explore the present by way of the past.

  3. Girish Karnad was an Indian actor, director, playwright, writer, professor, etc. He predominantly worked in South Indian Cinema. He rose to fame as a playwright in the 1960s.

  4. Girish Karnad was one of Indias most prominent intellectuals. He is difficult to categorize because he was active in numerous cultural arenas—he was a writer and a playwright, an actor, a screenwriter, and a director.

  5. Sep 27, 2021 · Girish Raghunath Karnad is a playwright, poet, actor, director, critic, translator and cultural administrator all rolled into one. He has been rightly called the “renaissance man” (Kalidas & Merchant.”Renaissance Man”); whose celebrity is based on decades of prolific and consistent output on native soil.

  6. Jun 10, 2019 · He gave his voice in the autobiography of A. P. J. Abdul Kalam ‘s (former President of India) audiobook ‘Wings of Fire’. Girish Karnad was a noted Indian playwright and actor. Check this page to know about his biography- age, wife, children, awards, career, family & much more!

  7. Jun 10, 2019 · Karnad was born into a middle class, upper caste family in the quaint town of Dharwad in colonial India's Mumbai presidency, in modern-day Karnataka. His father was a doctor and his mother worked...

  8. Girish Karnad was born on 19th May 1938 in Matheran, Maharashtra. He is acclaimed for his contemporary playwrights in Kannada. He is also an actor, director and screen writer.

  9. Jnanpith award winning playwright, actor and filmmaker Girish Karnad, aged 81, died in Bengaluru on Monday after suffering from a long illness, his family confirmed. Karnad was known for his ...

  10. Jun 10, 2019 · Karnad was born into a middle class, upper caste family in the quaint town of Dharwad in colonial India's Mumbai presidency, in modern-day Karnataka. His father was a doctor and his mother worked...