Girish Karnad

Girish Karnad

Birthday: 1938-05-19

Place of Birth: Maharashtra, India

Biography: 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. His rise as a playwright in the 1960s marked the coming of age of modern Indian playwriting in Kannada.He was a recipient of the 1998 Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour conferred in India.

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The Jewelled Lamp
The Jewelled Lamp

Ratnadeep revolves around a person who was fed up with his job and to get out of that situation, he ...

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Mysooru Mallige
Mysooru Mallige

Padma is in love with poet Manju. After he goes missing while trying to save a friend from nationali...

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Iqbal
Iqbal

This is all about chasing your dreams, no matter what the obstacles. The story involves a young deaf...

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Aakrosh: Cyclone Of Anger
Aakrosh: Cyclone Of Anger

An officer faces personal challenges after he is assigned to stop killers of the Prime Minister....

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Cheluvi
Cheluvi

Cheluvi, a poor young woman, has a secret magical power. With the magic, she turns into a tree which...

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Man Pasand
Man Pasand

Kamli belongs to a poor family. She sells datuns for a living. She sells them in local suburban trai...

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Samrat & Co.
Samrat & Co.

A young, beautiful and rich girl, Dimpy Singh, approaches Samrat Tilakdhari, a private investigator,...

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Aashayein
Aashayein

The story revolves around Rahul Singh (John Abraham), a compulsive gambler who wins Rs. 20 million f...

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Dor
Dor

Shankar Singh and his wife, Meera, live in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India along with widowed paternal gra...

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Naan Adimai Illai
Naan Adimai Illai

Vijay and Priya fall in love and get married against her father's wishes. However, when they get sep...

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Sutradhar
Sutradhar

Prerna is the only daughter of the local school's headmaster. She gets to meet her childhood friend,...

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8 x 10 Tasveer
8 x 10 Tasveer

8X10 Tasveer is a story about young man named Jai Puri, (Akshay Kumar), who possesses supernatural p...

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Life Goes On
Life Goes On

The drama explores the relations between a grief stricken father and his three daughters. Set in Lon...

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Santha Shishunala Sharif
Santha Shishunala Sharif

The story is based on the life of acclaimed saint poet Shishunala Sharif who wrote several moral poe...

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Apne Paraye
Apne Paraye

Film about the trials facing a family whose patriarch has squandered money into a series of unwise v...

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Chellamae
Chellamae

A young man follows his newlywed neighbour from Chennai to Goa when she moves there with her husband...

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Jadu Ka Shankh
Jadu Ka Shankh

Shyam and Soni live with their mother in a village. They are very poor. The children give away the o...

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China Gate
China Gate

After witnessing the brutal slaying of her Forest Officer father, Sunder Rajan, at the hands of drea...

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Umbartha
Umbartha

After the passing of her husband, Mrs. Mahajan takes care of four institutions, and lives a comforta...

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Nishant
Nishant

A man whose wife is abducted seeks to have the culprits prosecuted for their crime, but no one will ...

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The Churning
The Churning

A veterinarian, Dr. Rao, makes a visit to a village, where he intends to commence a co-operative soc...

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Kempe Gowda
Kempe Gowda

An enraged and influential gangster plans the ultimate vengeance against an honest police officer....

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Prathyartha
Prathyartha

Akshay, a family man, finds himself compromising with his conscience when he is blackmailed to murde...

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Mil Gayee Manzil Mujhe
Mil Gayee Manzil Mujhe

Vijay falls in love with a woman, who rejects him for a wealthy man, which drives him to work for a ...

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Zamana
Zamana

Poona-based Satish is a professional photographer and lives with his pregnant wife, Sudha, and son n...

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Tarang
Tarang

Rahul, the son-in-law of an old industrialist and one of the heirs to his fortune, clashes with Dine...

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Mugamoodi
Mugamoodi

A man can no longer tolerate injustice and corruption and he becomes a vigilante to fight for a bett...

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Chandra
Chandra

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chandra is a 2013 and 2014 Indian fantasy film, simultaneousl...

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Kadhal Mannan
Kadhal Mannan

Strict and authoritarian, Rudran disowns his elder daughter for eloping. His younger daughter, Thilo...

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Aatank
Aatank

Jesu and Peter are childhood friends who live in a coastal village in India and depend on fishing as...

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Dharma Chakram
Dharma Chakram

The story is about a family in which mother and son together fight against father for the principles...

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The Prince
The Prince

The Prince is the story of the other side of a Mafia family. Jeeva (Mohanlal), son of a Don (Girish ...

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Lava Kusha
Lava Kusha

Lava Kusha is a 2007 Kannada film directed by Om Saiprakash. The film stars Upendra, Shivaraj Kumar,...

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Gunaa
Gunaa

Guna, a mentally-disturbed man, imagines a fictitious character of a woman to be his future wife. On...

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Tananam Tananam
Tananam Tananam

Tananam Tananam (Kannada: ತನನಂ ತನನಂ) is a 2006 Indian Kannada romantic musical drama film directed a...

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Samskara
Samskara

Narayanappa, a Madhwa Brahmin man, dies in the Agrahara of the village Durvasapura. As per Madhwa cu...

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Ratchagan
Ratchagan

A girl falls for a violent man, who keeps taking law in his hands and beats people up. She wants to ...

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Sivasakthi
Sivasakthi

Marc Zuber Antony alias Tony (Mahesh Anand), an international smuggler, ended up in an isolated isla...

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Aa Dinagalu
Aa Dinagalu

Chetan loves Mallika but his father hires an underworld don, Kotwal, to break their relationship. Ir...

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24
24

Scientist turned Entrepreneur Dr. Sethuraman tries to safeguard his newly invented time travel devic...

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Shankar Dada M.B.B.S.
Shankar Dada M.B.B.S.

Shankar Dada is a local goon who sets out to fulfill his parents' dream of him being a doctor. With ...

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Chalk N Duster
Chalk N Duster

Chalk n Duster is an emotional journey of two teachers Vidya ( Shabana Azmi) & Jyoti ( Juhi Chaw...

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Kaanooru Heggadithi
Kaanooru Heggadithi

Subbamma (Tara), third wife of Chandre Gowda (Girish Karnad), is a rebellious mistress of the househ...

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Nehru: The Jewel of India
Nehru: The Jewel of India

Based on the life of Jawaharlal Nehru (played by Pratap Sharma) -- who succeeded Mahatma Gandhi and ...

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Swami
Swami

Saudamini is a pampered girl until she is forced to marry the widower Ghanshyam and move into his la...

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Sangeetha Sagara Ganayogi Panchakshara Gavai
Sangeetha Sagara Ganayogi Panchakshara Gavai

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Kaadhalan
Kaadhalan

Prabhu, a college student, falls in love with Shruthi, a governor's daughter. On knowing about their...

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Hey Ram
Hey Ram

Saketh Ram's wife is raped and killed during direct action day riots in Calcutta. He is convinced th...

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Akarshan
Akarshan

Love story about an actress falling in love with her costar...

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Pranadaata
Pranadaata

A doctor with amnesia starts treating patients when he remembers how to use surgical instruments. Me...

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Sur Sangam
Sur Sangam

As Pandit Shivshankar Shastri fades to obscurity with no one to carry on his legacy of Indian Classi...

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Tiger Zinda Hai
Tiger Zinda Hai

When a group of Indian and Pakistani nurses are held hostage in Iraq by a terrorist organization, a ...

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Pukar
Pukar

Major Jaidev saves a politician from the clutches of a dreaded terrorist. However, the terrorist joi...

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Meri Jung
Meri Jung

When evil lawyer Thakral prosecutes innocent family man Deepak and sends him to his death, his famil...

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Komaram Puli
Komaram Puli

Puli joins the police force since he wants to avenge his father's murder at the hands of Al Saleem. ...

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Ek Tha Tiger
Ek Tha Tiger

A top Indian agent is sent to observe the actions of a scientist but the mission complicates when he...

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Rudra Tandava
Rudra Tandava

Rudra Tandava follows a timid young man who has a loving family. When his brother, a government offi...

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Neela Kurinji Poothappol....
Neela Kurinji Poothappol....

Sivaramakrishnan Nair meets his retired defence friend Mennon after a long time and invites him to s...

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Chaitanya
Chaitanya

A Garage Mechanic, Chaitanya, who wants to participate in a car race, finds himself beaten and left ...

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Sankeertana
Sankeertana

Sankeertana is a 1987 Telugu-language classical film produced by M. Gangaiah under the Konark Movie ...

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Minsara Kanavu
Minsara Kanavu

Priya decides that she wants to be a nun, much to the horror of her father and Thomas, the boy who i...

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Aasha
Aasha

A famous singer, Aasha, falls in love with a truck driver, who believes his wife is dead, but when A...

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Aparoopa
Aparoopa

Set in the tea plantations of Assam in northeast India, where a young woman quits her studies to mar...

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Dhanam
Dhanam

Ananthakrishnan, coming from a conservative and rich Brahmin family, falls in love at first sight wi...

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Anveshane
Anveshane

In the mid-1980s, Shaam (Anant Nag) and Revati (Smita Patil) live in a Vatara (housing complex) with...

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Ananda Bhairavi
Ananda Bhairavi

Steeped in tradition, a village elder defies social scorn to preserve the dying art of Kuchipudi dan...

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Rana Vikrama
Rana Vikrama

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Gurudakshina
Gurudakshina

An orphaned boy Dev is adopted by Guruji and brought to his dance academy in Kolkata, owing to his d...

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Revisiting Samskara
Revisiting Samskara

Samskara, the film by Pattabhi Rama Reddy, created a revolution in Indian cinema 50 years ago. Winni...

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Paanch Qaidi
Paanch Qaidi

Once upon a time in a village a dacoit named Daku Mangal Singh (Ranjeet) harasses the villagers for ...

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Yaare Koogadali
Yaare Koogadali

Kumara and Natesa escape from their village and settle in the city. Later they start to work at a ga...

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Peepli Live
Peepli Live

Natha decides to commit suicide to get the farmers' compensation. However, the media and politicians...

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Prathama Ushakirana
Prathama Ushakirana

Filmfare South Award-winning Kannada film dealing with child psychiatry....

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Divorce
Divorce

Mr. Oswal is a very rich, influential, domineering man who lives with his wife and two sons, Jayant ...

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The Master: Shyam Benegal
The Master: Shyam Benegal

A personal portrait of director Shyam Benegal, made by his collaborator, Khalid Mohammed...

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Nee Thanda Kanike
Nee Thanda Kanike

A young boy, who is never loved by his father, grows up to become a spoilt and alcoholic man. Howeve...

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Vamsha Vriksha
Vamsha Vriksha

Through the story of a young widow who is devoted to her father-in-law but also desires to remarry t...

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Shama
Shama

Widower Nawab Yusuf Khan lives a wealthy lifestyle in Sultanpur, British India, along with his schoo...

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