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Girish Karnad

Indian playwright, theatre personality (1938–2019)

  • Fame55.0
  • Momentum0.4
  • Wikipedia16.8K
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Lived 1938–2019, aged 81India
IndiaIndiaWritersWriter / Author
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    30 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Era
    1938–2019
    Aged 81
  • Known for
    Ek Tha Tiger
    2012
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Updated 2026-07-18

Girish Karnad was an Indian playwright, actor, film director, Kannada writer, and a Jnanpith awardee, who predominantly worked in Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi films. His rise as a playwright in the 1960s marked the coming of age of modern Indian playwriting in Kannada, just as Badal Sarkar did in Bengali, Vijay Tendulkar in Marathi, and Mohan Rakesh in Hindi. He was a recipient of the 1998 Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour conferred in India.

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