Date of birth: 1938-05-19
Place of birth: Maharashtra, India
Known for: Acting
Also known as: ಗಿರೀಶ್ ಕಾರ್ನಾಡ್
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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Padma is in love with poet Manju. After he goes missing while trying to save a friend from nationali
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This is all about chasing your dreams, no matter what the obstacles. The story involves a young deaf
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An officer faces personal challenges after he is assigned to stop killers of the Prime Minister.
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Cheluvi, a poor young woman, has a secret magical power. With the magic, she turns into a tree which
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Kamli belongs to a poor family. She sells datuns for a living. She sells them in local suburban trai
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A young, beautiful and rich girl, Dimpy Singh, approaches Samrat Tilakdhari, a private investigator,
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The story revolves around Rahul Singh (John Abraham), a compulsive gambler who wins Rs. 20 million f
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Shankar Singh and his wife, Meera, live in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India along with widowed paternal gra
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Vijay and Priya fall in love and get married against her father's wishes. However, when they get sep
1987-01-31
Prerna is the only daughter of the local school's headmaster. She gets to meet her childhood friend,
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8X10 Tasveer is a story about young man named Jai Puri, (Akshay Kumar), who possesses supernatural p
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The drama explores the relations between a grief stricken father and his three daughters. Set in Lon
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The story is based on the life of acclaimed saint poet Shishunala Sharif who wrote several moral poe
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Film about the trials facing a family whose patriarch has squandered money into a series of unwise v
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A young man follows his newlywed neighbour from Chennai to Goa when she moves there with her husband
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Shyam and Soni live with their mother in a village. They are very poor. The children give away the o
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After witnessing the brutal slaying of her Forest Officer father, Sunder Rajan, at the hands of drea
1982-07-20
After the passing of her husband, Mrs. Mahajan takes care of four institutions, and lives a comforta
1975-06-06
A man whose wife is abducted seeks to have the culprits prosecuted for their crime, but no one will
1976-10-01
A veterinarian, Dr. Rao, makes a visit to a village, where he intends to commence a co-operative soc
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An enraged and influential gangster plans the ultimate vengeance against an honest police officer.
1999-01-01
Akshay, a family man, finds himself compromising with his conscience when he is blackmailed to murde
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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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Poona-based Satish is a professional photographer and lives with his pregnant wife, Sudha, and son n
1984-01-01
Rahul, the son-in-law of an old industrialist and one of the heirs to his fortune, clashes with Dine
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A man can no longer tolerate injustice and corruption and he becomes a vigilante to fight for a bett
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chandra is a 2013 and 2014 Indian fantasy film, simultaneousl
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Strict and authoritarian, Rudran disowns his elder daughter for eloping. His younger daughter, Thilo
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Jesu and Peter are childhood friends who live in a coastal village in India and depend on fishing as
1996-01-13
The story is about a family in which mother and son together fight against father for the principles
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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 is a 2007 Kannada film directed by Om Saiprakash. The film stars Upendra, Shivaraj Kumar,
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Guna, a mentally-disturbed man, imagines a fictitious character of a woman to be his future wife. On
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Narayanappa, a Madhwa Brahmin man, dies in the Agrahara of the village Durvasapura. As per Madhwa cu
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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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Marc Zuber Antony alias Tony (Mahesh Anand), an international smuggler, ended up in an isolated isla
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Chetan loves Mallika but his father hires an underworld don, Kotwal, to break their relationship. Ir
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Scientist turned Entrepreneur Dr. Sethuraman tries to safeguard his newly invented time travel devic
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2016-01-15
Chalk n Duster is an emotional journey of two teachers Vidya ( Shabana Azmi) & Jyoti ( Juhi Chaw
1999-01-01
Subbamma (Tara), third wife of Chandre Gowda (Girish Karnad), is a rebellious mistress of the househ
1990-01-01
Based on the life of Jawaharlal Nehru (played by Pratap Sharma) -- who succeeded Mahatma Gandhi and
1977-01-06
Saudamini is a pampered girl until she is forced to marry the widower Ghanshyam and move into his la
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Prabhu, a college student, falls in love with Shruthi, a governor's daughter. On knowing about their
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Saketh Ram's wife is raped and killed during direct action day riots in Calcutta. He is convinced th
1988-02-21
Love story about an actress falling in love with her costar
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A doctor with amnesia starts treating patients when he remembers how to use surgical instruments. Me
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As Pandit Shivshankar Shastri fades to obscurity with no one to carry on his legacy of Indian Classi
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When a group of Indian and Pakistani nurses are held hostage in Iraq by a terrorist organization, a
2000-02-04
Major Jaidev saves a politician from the clutches of a dreaded terrorist. However, the terrorist joi
1985-08-11
When evil lawyer Thakral prosecutes innocent family man Deepak and sends him to his death, his famil
2010-09-10
Puli joins the police force since he wants to avenge his father's murder at the hands of Al Saleem.
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A top Indian agent is sent to observe the actions of a scientist but the mission complicates when he
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1987-01-09
Sivaramakrishnan Nair meets his retired defence friend Mennon after a long time and invites him to s
1991-06-07
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Sankeertana is a 1987 Telugu-language classical film produced by M. Gangaiah under the Konark Movie
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Set in the tea plantations of Assam in northeast India, where a young woman quits her studies to mar
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1983-01-01
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Steeped in tradition, a village elder defies social scorn to preserve the dying art of Kuchipudi dan
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An orphaned boy Dev is adopted by Guruji and brought to his dance academy in Kolkata, owing to his d
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Samskara, the film by Pattabhi Rama Reddy, created a revolution in Indian cinema 50 years ago. Winni
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Once upon a time in a village a dacoit named Daku Mangal Singh (Ranjeet) harasses the villagers for
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Filmfare South Award-winning Kannada film dealing with child psychiatry.
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