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GIRISH KARNAD
MEDIA APPRECIATION
KARUNYA VINUKONDA
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POINTS COVERED
Introduction
Historical Aspect And Early Life
Reflections Of Real Life Over Cinema
Genres
Famous Films
Historical And Political Scenario Of The Country Over Films
Style
Script
Story Line
Cinematography
Films & Discussions
Conclusion

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GIRISH KARNAD
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INTRODUCTION
Girish Raghunath Karnad
Contemporary writer, playwright,
screenwriter, actor and movie
He is a recipient of the 1998 Jnanpith
Award, the highest literary honour
conferred in India.

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INTRODUCTION
He was conferred Padma Shri and Padma
Bhushan by the Government of India
Won four Filmfare Awards where three are
Filmfare Awards for Best Director
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HISTORICAL ASPECT & EARLY LIFE

Born in Matheran, Maharashtra
Karnataka, he was exposed to travelling
theatre groups
Bachelors of Arts degree in Mathematics
and Statistics, from Karnatak Arts College,
Dharwad
Master of Arts degree in philosophy,
political science and economics
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CAREER
Oxford University Press
Minister of Culture, in the Indian High
Commission
Director of the Film and Television Institute
of India
Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi
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REFLECTIONS OF REAL LIFE OVER
CINEMA

Karnad endeavours to forge a link
between the past and the present.
Views the subjects of his plays from his
own perspective
Medium to communicate his own-
independent and original-feelings,
thoughts and interpretations
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HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCENARIO
OF THE COUNTRY OVER FILMS

Given new directions to the post-
Independence Indian drama
Heightened awareness of rural forms
Girish Karnad harmonizes the western
tradition of drama with the social-political
change, sense of insecurity, frustration,
isolation, depression, and search of
perfection in Indian sensibility
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Girish Karnad handled the themes in his
own style to mock the society to revive the
political situations and to transform the
people to be aware of the political unrest
Theatre of roots movement
Rebelled against British-influenced drama
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He not only links the past with the present
but also the grandeur and mobility of the
epics like the Mahabharata and
Ramayana with the simplicity and charm
of folk imagination
Tries to establish a dialectical relationship
between tradition and modernity
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The psychoanalysts like Sigmund Freud,
Carl Jung and Claude Levi Strauss
believed that myths and dreams reveal
unconscious psychological forces within
people
He adapts mythical and historical material
with a view to giving it a psychological
interpretation
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Retrieval of Indian Culture and Tradition in Girish
Karnads Films

Girish Karnad is one such dramatist who
makes an attempt to retrieve the treasure
of culture and tradition. He has been
rightly been called the Renaissance man,
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Karnad takes myth as a faith builder for
individuals spiritual evolution. He uses
folklore to connect the magic and reality
and history for a symbolic sociopolitical
struggle in contemporary reality.
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Presenting myths in human condition he
links the present with the eternal and the
contemporary with the archetypal
Naga mandala

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STYLE, SCRIPT and CINEMATOGRAPHY

He deftly employs all the conventions and
motifs of folk tales and folk theatre-masks,
dolls, curtains and the story within the
story.
Although he burrows the plot of his plays
from different episodes of myth, history
and folklore, no character in his dramatic
sphere is a superhuman being
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1. Vamsha Vriksha (1971, Kannada)
2. D.R. Bendre (1972, documentary)
3. Tabbaliyu Neenade Magane in
Kannada
4. Godhuli (1977, Hindi)
5. Ondanondu Kaladalli (1978) in Kannada
6. Kanooru Heggadathi in Kannada

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7. Kaadu (1973, Kannada)
8. Durga in Mahendar
9. Utsav in Hindi
10. Woh Ghar (1984, Hindi), based on
Kirtinath Kurtakoti's Kannada play Aa Mani
11. The Lamp in the Niche (1990)
(documentary)

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12. Cheluvi (1992, Kannada and Hindi
(Dubbed))
13. Chidambara Rahasya (2005,
Kannada) (tele film for DD1)

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Kaadu - 1973 Kannada (The
Forest)

Young boy, Kitti. The boy, who is staying
with his uncle Chandra Gowda and aunt
Kamali,
The boy cannot distinguish the specifically
man-made violence that surrounds him
from the more primeval threats presented
by the dense forest
In a fantasy ending, the boy imagines the
bird calling him and he follows the call
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Movie clip
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Cheluvi - 1992 Kannada
(The Flowering Tree)
Karnataka folk-tale
Turn herself into a tree yielding an endless
supply of blossoms
A mutilated tree-stump.

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Vamsha vriksha

It is a tale of three generations of two
Hindu families in Karnataka
Relevant today
Several parts of the film rely on movement
of the actors, the camera angles, light and
shade, rather than the spoken words.
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STATUS OF WOMEN
Girish Karnad thus has glorified the extra-
marital relationship through his dramatic
art, while he knows that it is for sensual
fulfilment
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CONCLUSION
Innovating the post sixties Indian theatre
Experimental Theatre
Karnad decorates Indian culture nicely

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REFERENCES
Portrayal of Political Power in Girish Karnad
Majumdar, Neepa. Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! : Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s-
50s.
: University of Illinois Press,
Dr. Prafull D. Kulkarni (2010). The Dramatic World of Girish Karnad. Creative Books
www.euroasiapub.org
Critical Study Of Innovations And Experiments In The Plays Of Girish Karnad Anita Parul Mishra
Modernist Strains In The Major Plays Of Girish Karnad
A semiotic study of Girish Karnad's "Nagamandala By Anjali Nambiar
Chaosmag Database
Retrieval of Indian Culture and Tradition in Karnads plays by Dr. Tasleem A War
Girish Karnad: A Man and ArtistEvolution of His Dramatic Genius Dr. Krishna Singh
Girish Karnad : Pioneering The Theatre of Roots Dr. Gitanjali Bhatia
Culture In The Plays Of Girish Karnad Dr. R.Chanana
www.itimes.com
Desires and Ecstasies of Women in The Plays Of Girish Karnad Dr. Sunil Mishra
www.karnatakavision.com