Girish Karnad

Girish Karnad is an actor, writer and director in Kannada and Hindi cinema, credited on Neenillada Male (2018).

Girish Raghunath Kārnād (19 May 1938 – 10 June 2019) was an Indian playwright, actor, film director, 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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