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One of the Icons of Indian Arts and Culture Girish Karnad has been honored with ambassadorship of UNESCO's International Theatre Institute. The Paris based organization in a unique way has absolutely honored about a dozen other personalities including British theatre and film director Peter Brook, Italian playwright Dario Fo, French theatrical legend Ariane Mnouchkine and German choreographer Pina Bausch. Karnad, who is 70, has a credit of Pan Indian theater personality since his plays have been translated and produced in several languages over the span of forty years. He has been honored with Sangeet Natak Akademy in 1972, Padma Sri in 1974 and Padma Bhushan in 1992 and Jnanpith Award in 1998. He also associated with parallel films and acted along with Nasrudeen Shah, Om Puri and others and had vast appearance in regional language films including Tamil.
Girish Karnad honored by UNESCO
One of the Icons of Indian Arts and Culture Girish Karnad has been honored with ambassadorship of UNESCO's International Theatre Institute. The Paris based organization in a unique way has absolutely honored about a dozen other personalities including British theatre and film director Peter Brook, Italian playwright Dario Fo, French theatrical legend Ariane Mnouchkine and German choreographer Pina Bausch. Karnad, who is 70, has a credit of Pan Indian theater personality since his plays have been translated and produced in several languages over the span of forty years. He has been honored with Sangeet Natak Akademy in 1972, Padma Sri in 1974 and Padma Bhushan in 1992 and Jnanpith Award in 1998. He also associated with parallel films and acted along with Nasrudeen Shah, Om Puri and others and had vast appearance in regional language films including Tamil.
Giribabu to take up direction
Giribabu is in the film industry for the past 35 years and played different characters as villain, character artiste and hero and earned a name as a versatile artiste. Though he was introduced to the film industry as hero, he never missed any opportunity to play any kind of character and pleased all classes of audiences in different characters. He played as an artiste in several heavy budget films and low-budget films. He paired up with great artistes like NTR, ANR, Krishna, Krishnamraju, Sobhanbabu of yesteryears and also with the present generation artistes like Chiranjeevi, Mohanbabu, Venkatesh, Balakrishna, Nagarjuna, Pawan Kalyan, Prabhas, NTR and Raviteja. He played any kind of character with similar ease. He had stayed in the film industry not only as an artiste but also produced several hit films like 'Jagat Kiladeelu' earlier and also directed some films. However, he settled as an artiste for the past some time and is doing the roles of character artistes. After a long gap, Giribabu had decided to wield the megaphone once again. It is reliably learnt that Raja of 'Anand'-fame is playing the hero in that flick. MusicMazaa.com wishes him every success as director once again.
Giribabu to direct Raja
Giribabu made his debut into the Telugu film industry with 'Jagame Maya'. Later, he portrayed versatile characters like villain, hero and character artiste. He is serving the Telugu film industry not only as an artiste but also as a producer and director for the past 30 years and earned a distinct place. Giribabu's elder son Raghubabu also turned an artiste and is doing different characters and won compliments and recognition from the audiences. After a long gap Giribabu is now planning to produce a film in his own direction. According to sources in the Film Nagar, glamour boy Raja was selected as hero and Priyamani as heroine. It is almost after 20 years of gap, Giribabu is getting ready to wield the megaphone. Let us wish all the best to Giribabu!
Girish Karnad Injured and Hospitalised
Jnanpith Award winner playwright Girish Karnad has been admitted to St John's Hospital after he was injured during a freak accident during the shooting of the film Pora. The shooting for the climax of the film was taking place in Nelamangala this evening when the accident happened. The shooting spot was full of slush due to rain effect and Karnad slipped and fell. His hand and leg has been injured but his health is not affected.
Actor Girish Karnad met with an accident?
Popular actor Girish Karnad who was seen in supportive roles in several movies, was said to have met with an accident in Goa and is critical in hospital. But this news has been completely refuted as a rumour. "There have been rumors with pictures, circulating since afternoon that Mr Girish Karnad met with an accident. Nothing like that has happened. It is false and absolutely baseless. Please ignore it," filmmaker KM Chaitanya posted on facebook.