#girish karnad

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Rekha in Utsav (1984)

| dir. Girish Karnad

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save me rekha as vasantsena in Utsav (1984) dir. girish karnad cinematography by ashok mehra save me....

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Manthan: Shyam Benegal's masterpiece is officially a Cannes Classic!

Poster of Manthan by NDFC. Shyam Benegal’s 1976 film Manthan has been restored in 4K resolution to be screened at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in the Classics section, as it happens to be one of the most important films ever made in India. The film is based on a fictitious account of a veterinary physician Dr. Rao who is tasked with the responsibility of starting a Milk Co-operative Society in…

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oh to be a filthy rich 19th century heiress so that i can buy the rights to girish karnad's 1964 play tughlaq hire alex turner to compose music for a musical based on it and have said musical dedicated to me

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Remembering #GirishKarnad on his birth anniversary (19/5).

He was a writer, playwright, screenwriter, actor and movie director. His rise as a playwright in 1960s marked the coming of age of modern Indian playwriting in Kannada.

What are your favourite Girish Karnad roles?

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Samskara (1970), Directed by Tikkavarapu Pattabhirama Reddy

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Cheluvi: A Masterful Metamorphosis by the Greatness of Girish Karnad

As a devotee of the silver screen, I’ve devoured countless films, each offering a glimpse into a world both familiar and fantastical. Yet, few films have struck a chord as profound as Girish Karnad’s 1992 masterpiece, Cheluvi (meaning “Beautiful Girl” in Kannada). This seemingly simple tale blossoms into a profound exploration of nature, human greed, and the complexities of existence, solidifying…

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Counting my Bangalore Blessings

Counting my Bangalore Blessings

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I want everyone to watch this as homework and think about the Bhakti movement as the revolution it was: a social revolution that humanised the gods out of their enclosures of caste and space.

It doesn't have subtitles, but the narrator translates into English, so you will have enough context.

-Mod G

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BHUMIKA (1977) — dir. Shyam Benegal

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Utsav (1984)  //  title cards

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non-fiction i'd like to read in 2024

The Audacity of Pleasure: Sexuality, Literature and Cinema in India

The Scenes We Made: An Oral History of Experimental theatre in mumbai

Life At Play: a Girish Karnad Memoir

Citizen Gallery: The Gandhys Of Chemould And The Birth Of Modern Art In Bombay

Delirious City: Polity And Vanity In Urban India

Modernism/Murderism: The Modern Art Debate in Kumar

Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor

Urban Kitsch

Being Mortal: Medicines And What Matters In The End

Other Minds (Collins Modern Classics)

Seeking Begumpura

My Friend, My Enemy: Essays, Reminiscences, Portraits

In the Making: Identity Formation In South Asia

A Book Of Days

Outside the Fold

The Open-Close Magazine: Issue #14

In the Kitchen

From Subjugation To Emancipation

Chillies and Porridge: Writing Food

Friendship as Social Justice Activism

Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales Of Architectural Tragedy

Amour: How The French Talk About Love

The RTI Story: Power To The People

A Nomad Called Thief: Reflections On Adivasi Silence

The Algebra of Infinite Justice

The Kashmir Dispute 1947-2012 (Vol-1)

Marginal Zones: Development-Induced Displacement in Mumbai

No Laughing Matter: The Ambedkar Cartoons, 1932 To 1956

Conservation Kaleidoscope: People, Protected Areas And Wildlife In Contemporary India

Conversations With Ambedkar: 10 Ambedkar Memorial Lectures

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was talking to my mum ytd and she reminded me of that girish karnad phase i had back in the day. and then the sadat hasan manto phase. and the leonard cohen phase. and now alex turner---- oh it's all adding up

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What are some Indian authors/Indian works of literature you would recommend? I’d like to expand my repertoire and you seem like a well-read person with thoughtful opinions 🤔

I am not nearly as well-read as you probably think, especially not in Indian literature. I find most Indian literature extremely depressing, and so I usually avoid it - but that's not something I'm proud of.

Looking at my list of books, I recommend the collected plays of Girish Karnad above all else. He wrote in Kannada and had an excellent grasp of Indian history, which is where most of his stories are set.

I read a book called Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil last year. It was stuck in my head for 10 years, ever since I read in a newspaper interview that its first chapter is one long run-on sentence. It's set in the opium dens of Bombay during the 1970s, and it's filthy in its world of paan-stained grime and opium haze and cheap sex, but Thayil is a poet at heart and that's what I appreciate about his writing - he makes reading his book itself feel like a collaborative work of art.

I read The Beautiful and the Damned by Siddhartha Deb in 2015, which is a non-fiction panorama of modern India (in 2011), and I thought it was really enchanting in showing me the many, many sides of modern India that go under the radar. The images that book conjured haven't read my head all these years. I'll have to steal such a passage from it later.

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THE RENOWNED CHARACTER ACTOR GIRISH KARNAD IN A PHOTO SHOOT IN HIS YOUNG AGE