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Utsav (1984)  //  title cards
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depressedraisin · 5 months
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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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bollywoodirect · 1 year
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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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narrativecradle · 1 month
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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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Samskara (1970), Directed by Tikkavarapu Pattabhirama Reddy
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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.
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It doesn't have subtitles, but the narrator translates into English, so you will have enough context.
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BHUMIKA (1977) — dir. Shyam Benegal
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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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depressedraisin · 5 months
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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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bollywoodirect · 2 years
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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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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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Cheluvi (1992, dir. Girish Karnad)
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THE RENOWNED CHARACTER ACTOR GIRISH KARNAD IN A PHOTO SHOOT IN HIS YOUNG AGE
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INDIES TOP 360 BOLLYWOOD SCREEN-PAIRS OF ALL TIME!
INDIES TOP 360 BOLLYWOOD SCREEN-PAIRS OF ALL TIME!
   Rajesh Khanna – Mumtaz
.Rajesh Khanna – Asha Parekh
.Rajesh Khanna – Sharmila Tagore
.Rajesh Khanna – Waheeda Rehman
.Rajesh Khanna – Leena Chandavarkar
.Shammi Kapoor – Asha Parekh
.Rajesh Khanna – Tanuja
.Rajesh Khanna  - Raakhee
.Dilip Kumar - Madhubala
.Dharmendra – Meena Kumari
.Raaj Kumar – Meena Kumari
.Pradeep Kumar – Bina Rai
.Shashi Kapoor – Nanda
.Pradeep Kumar – Meena Kumari
.Dev Anand – Waheeda Rehman
.Rajesh Khanna – Moushumi Chatterjee
.Dilip Kumar – Waheeda Rehman
.Manoj Kumar – Asha Parekh
.Dev Anand – Kalpana Karthik
.Dilip Kumar – Nalini Jaywant
.Sachin – Sarika
.Sachin – Sadhana Singh
.Sachin – Bindiya Goswami
.Shammi Kapoor – Nutan
.Vijay Arora – Rita Bhaduri
.Pradeep Kumar - Jayshree
.Kamal Haasan – Rati Agnihotri
.Rajesh Khanna – Shabana Azmi
.Kishore Kumar – Meena Kumari
.Ashok Kumar – Nirupa Roy
.Salman Khan – Bhagyashree
.Guru Dutt – Waheeda Rehman
.I.S. Johar – Sonia Sahni
.Rajesh Khanna – Jaya Prada
.Amol Palekar – Vidya Sinha
.Sanjeev Kumar – Moushumi Chatterjee
.Amol Palekar – Bindiya Goswami
.Rajesh Khanna – Tina Munim
.Rajesh Khanna - Zaheera
.Bharat Bhushan – Madhubala
.Bharat Bhushan - Nutan
.Ashok Kumar – Madhubala
.Amitabh Bachchan – Rekha
.Sunil Dutt – Mala Sinha
.Karan Dewan – Vyjyanthimala
.Gope – Nigar Sultana
.Pradeep Kumar - Kalpana
.Balraj Sahni – Meena Kumari
.Vijay Arora – Zeenat Aman
.Sachin – Rajni Sharma
.Ajit – Nalini Jaywant
.Ashok Kumar – Mumtaz Shanti
.Girish Karnad – Shabana Azmi
.Joy Mukherjee – Sadhana Shivdasani
.Uttam Kumar – Sharmila Tagore
.Dilip Kumar –Nimmi
.Sanjeev Kumar – Sulakshana Pandit
.Dilip Kumar - Vyjyanthimala
.Paidi Jairaj – Anita Guha
.Kumar Gaurav – Vijayta Pandit
.Rajesh Khanna – Smita Patil
.Om Puri – Shabana Azmi
.Govinda – Divya Bharti
.Ashok Kumar – Meena Kumari
.Shyam - Suraiya
.Guru Dutt- Mala Sinha
.Shyam – Naseem Banu
.V.Shantaram - Sandhya
.Dilip Kumar – Kamini Kaushal
.Motilal – Meena Shorey
.Shashi Kapoor – Rekha
.Trilok Kapoor – Nirupa Roy
.Raj Kapoor - Nargis
.Dilip Kumar – Nargis
.Shammi Kapoor – Mumtaz
.Dharmendra - Tanuja
.Pradeep Kumar – Anita Guha
.Dharmendra – Asha Parekh
.Farooque Shaikh – Moushumi Chatterjee
.Rishi Kapoor – Neetu Singh
.Shammi Kapoor – Saira Banu
.Shammi Kapoor – Kalpana
.Vinod Khanna – Zeenat Aman
.Rakesh Roshan – Bindiya Goswami
.Dada Kondke – Usha Chavan
.Farooque Shaikh – Deepti Naval
.Amitabh Bachchan – Parveen Babi
.Dara Singh – Nishi Kohli
.Shammi Kapoor – Sharmila Tagore
.Dara Singh - Mumtaz
.Dev Anand - Raakhee
.Dilip Kumar - Mumtaz
.K. L. Saigal - Khursheed
.Bhagwan Dada – Geeta Bali
.Ashok Kumar – Mala Sinha
.Salman Khan – Madhuri Dixit
.Dada Kondke - Swapna
.Jeetendra – Sulakshana Pandit
.Ashok Kumar – Nutan
.Jeetendra – Sridevi
.Rajesh Khanna – Sadhana
.Bharat Bhushan – Shyama
.Kishore Kumar – Chand Usmani
.Nasir Khan – Meena Kumari
.Pradeep Kumar – Mala Sinha
.Dev Anand – Mala Sinha
.Kishore Kumar – Anita Guha
.Sanjeev Kumar – Vidya Sinha
.Rajesh Khanna – Vidya Sinha
.Rajesh Khanna – Sulakshana Pandit
.Rajesh Khanna – Mala Sinha
.Bharat Bhushan – Nirupa Roy
.Feroz Khan - Chitra
.Vinod Mehra – Moushumi Chatterjee
.Rajesh Khanna – Nazima
.Sachin - Ranjeeta
.Rajesh Khanna – Farida Jalal
.Bharat Bhushan – Meena Kumari
.Ashok Kumar – Nalini Jaywant
.Ramesh Deo – Seema Deo
.Rishi Kapoor – Jaya Prada
.Farooque Shaikh – Surinder Kaur
.Vinod Mehra - Raakhee
.Rajesh Khanna – Padmini Kolhapure
.Kishore Kumar – T. Krishna Kumari
.Farooque Shaikh – Roma Manik
.Manher Desai – Nirupa Roy
.Karan Dewan – Shyama
.Anil Dhawan – Rehana Sultana
.Kishore Kumar – Jamuna
.Kishore Kumar – Yogeeta Bali
.Kishore Kumar – Shyamalee
.Jeetendra – Asha Parekh
.Arvind Kumar - Chitra
.Kishore Kumar – Jabeen Jalil
.Sachin – Nazneen
.Jairaj – Chitra
.Vinod Mehra - Rekha
.Farooque Shaikh – Rekha
.Abhi Bhattacharya – Kamini Kaushal
.Chandrashekhar Vaidya – Helen
.Kishore Kumar – Asha Nadkarni
.Kishore Kumar – Usha Kiran
.Kishore Kumar – Maya Dass
.Kishore Kumar – Ameeta
.Vinod Khanna – Parveen Babi
.Rishi Kapoor – Dimple Kapadia
.Rajendra Kumar – Jamuna
.Kishore Kumar - Sadhana
.Dharmendra – Mala Sinha
.Dharmendra – Supriya Choudhury
.Kishore Kumar - Kumkum
.Ajit – Meena Kumari
.Kishore Kumar – Sudha Rani
.Kishore Kumar - Nimmi
.Kishore Kumar – Jyoti Laxmi
.Kishore Kumar – Waheeda Rehman
.Ajit – Madhubala
.Guru Dutt – Pranoti Ghosh
.Kishore Kumar- Tanuja
.Kishore Kumar – Mala Sinha
.Shyam – Munawwar Sultana
.Mahipal – Meena Kumari
.Mahipal – Shakila
.Kishore Kumar - Surekha Pandit
.Kishore Kumar - Mumtaz
.Kishore Kumar – Bina Rai
.Guru Dutt – Shyama
.Ranjan – Naseem Banu
.Ranjan – Shakila
.Suresh – Geeta Bali
.Kishore Kumar - Shyama
.Kishore Sahu – Bina Rai
.Manher Desai – Shakila
.Kishore Kumar - Padmini
.Rajendra Kumar – Asha Parekh
.Sunil Dutt - Nanda
.Sunil Dutt – Meena Kumari
.Kishore Kumar – Sheila Ramani
.Dharmendra – Pranoti Ghosh
.Feroz Khan – Sayeeda Khan
.Balraj Sahni – Sulochana Chatterjee
.Manoj Kumar – Waheeda Rehman
.Amol Palekar – Parveen Babi
.Shekhar – Kamini Kaushal
.Ashish Kumar – Kanan Kaushal
.Tariq – Kaajal Kiran
.Dinshaw Billimoria – Ruby Mayer/Sulochana
.Rajendra Kumar - Sadhana
.Shammi Kapoor - Sadhana
.Sunil Dutt - Nutan
.Balraj Sahni – Nargis
.Dilip Kumar – Saira Banu
,Bharat Bhushan – Bina Rai
.Raj Babbar – Anita Raj
.Sunil Dutt – Waheeda Rehman
.Bharat Bhushan – Shalini
.Kishore Kumar - Shakila
.Mahipal – Sandhya
.Farooque Shaikh – Anita Raaj
.Dev Anand – Nutan
.Bharat Bhushan – Suraiya
.Bharat Bhushan - Ameeta
.Ashok Kumar – Shyama
.Karan Dewan – Meena Kumari
.Manher Desai – Meena Kumari
.Sudesh Kumar – Jayshree Gadkar
.Rajendra Kumar – Waheeda Rehman
.Rajesh Khanna – Nanda
.Rajendra Kumar – Saira Banu
.Dev Anand - Kalpana
.Sunil Dutt – Asha Parekh
.Ashok Kumar – Suchitra Sen
.Kishore Kumar - Vyjyanthimala
.Shammi Kapoor – Mala Sinha
.Asrani - Bindiya Goswami
.Balraj Sahni - Nutan
.Rajesh Khanna – Simple Kapadia
.Rajesh Khanna –Reena Roy
.Sunil Dutt – Sadhana
.Rishi Kapoor - Naseem
.Rajesh Khanna – Parveen Babi
.Rishi Kapoor – Padmini Kolhapure
.Shekhar - Nutan
.Mahipal – Anita Guha
.Mehmood – Shobha Khote
.Joy Mukherjee – Saira Banu
.Rajesh Khanna – Neelam Kothari
.Manoj Kumar – Mala Sinha
.Pradeep Kumar - Madhubala
.Guru Dutt - Shakila
.Dev Anand – Sadhana
.Rishi Kapoor – Divya Bharti
.Dev Anand – Nalini Jaywant
.Ashok Kumar – Padmini
.Balraj Sahni – Pandari Bai
.Johnny Walker - Kumkum
.Shashi Kapoor – Neetu Singh
.K.L. Saigal – Kanan Devi
.Kishore Kumar - Nutan
.Karan Dewan  Swaran Lata
.Dev Anand - Madhubala
.Ashok Kumar – Leela Chitnis
.Rajesh Khanna – Babita
.Sunil Dutt – Saira Banu
.Raj Kapoor – Waheeda Rehman
.Ranjan - Chitra
.Jeetendra – Jaya Prada
.Sanjeev Kumar - Sarika
.Raj Kumar – Priya Rajvansh
.Raj Kapoor – Meena Kumari
.John Cawas – Fearless Nadia
.Randhawa - Mallika
.Feroz Khan – Zeenat Aman
.Rajendra Kumar – Mala Sinha
.Rajesh Khanna – Indrani Mukherjee
.Guru Dutt – Meena Kumari
.Arvind Swamy – Manisha Koirala
.Sanjeev Kumar – Kanan Kaushal
.Wasti – Suraiya
.Jeetendra – Neetu Singh
.Dev Anand - Suraiya
.Kishore Kumar - Kalpana
.Shashi Kapoor – Sulakshana Pandit
.Mahipal – Mala Sinha
.Kishore Kumar – Smriti Biswas
.Rajesh Khanna - Rekha
.Shashi Kapoor – Babita
.Pradeep Kumar - Fariyal
.Shekhar - Smriti Biswas
.Dara Singh - Helen
.Ajit- Meena Shorey
.Dev Anand – Meena Kumari
.Navin Nischol – Kaajal Kiran
.Raj Kumar – Kamini Kaushal
.Govinda – Meenakshi Sheshadri
.Jeetendra – Reena Roy
.Govinda – Kimi Katkar
.Karan Dewan - Jayshree
.Dev Anand - Geeta Bali
.Vinod Khanna – Shabana Azmi
.Kishore Sahu – Kamini Kaushal
.Shashi Kapoor – Parveen Babi
.Azaad Irani - Chitra
.Uttam Kumar – Sulakshana Pandit
.Kader Khan – Aruna Irani
.Dev Anand – Usha Kiran
.Shashi Kapoor – Vidya Sinha
.Nazir – Noor Jehan
.Dinesh Thakur – Vidya sinha
.Ulhas - Mumtaz Shanti
.Dev Anand – Asha Parekh
.Joy Mukherjee – Asha Parekh
.Rajesh Khanna – Salma Agha
.Vinod Khanna – Leena Chandavarkar
.Shiv Kumar – Anjana Mumtaz
.Raj Kumar – Mala Sinha
.Rajesh Khanna- Sridevi
.Prem Nath – Bina Rai
.Sanjeev Kumar – Rehana Sultana
.Kishore Kumar – Madhubala
.Shashi Kapoor - Mumtaz
.Farooque Shaikh – Shabana Azmi
.Sanjeev Kumar – Nazima
.Shashi Kapoor – Bindiya Goswami
.Rajesh Khanna – Zeenat Aman
.Jeetendra – Leena Chandavarkar
.Rajesh Khanna – Hema Malini
.Feroz Khan – Mumtaz
.Shammi Kapoor - Sumitra Devi
.Naseeruddin Shah – Shabana Azmi
.Sanjeev Kumar – Suchitra Sen
.Dev Anand – Zeenat Aman
.Dharmendra - Raakhee
.Biswajeet – Mala Sinha
.Dharmendra – Nutan
.Raj Kapoor - Vyjyanthimala
.Deepak Parashar - Salma Agha
.Dev Anand -  Nanda
.Dharmendra – Zeenat Aman
.K..L.Saigal - Umasashi
.Dharmendra – Saira Banu
.Shammi Kapoor –Nalini Jaywant
.Rajesh Khanna - Farha
.Sunny Deol – Amrita Singh
.Rajendra Kumar – Nanda
.Naseeruddin Shah – Deepti Naval
.Shekhar – Meena Kumari
.Shashi Kapoor - Raakhee
.Shahrukh Khan – Preity Zinta
.Balraj Sahni – Padmini
.Prem Adib – Meena Shorey
.Raj Babbar – Salma Agha
.Dev Anand – Suchitra Sen
.Dilip Kumar – Meena Kumari
.Dharmendra – Rekha
.Sanjeev Kumar – Jaya Bhaduri
.Balraj Sahni – Achala Sachdev
.Rajendra Kumar – Meena Kumari
.Rajesh Khanna - Madhavi
.Dharmendra – Hema Malini
.Rishi Kapoor - Raakhee
.Rajendra Kumar - Ameeta
.Gemini Ganesan – Meena Kumari
.Naseeruddin Shah - Raakhee
.Raj Kapoor - Nutan
.Rehman – Meena Kumari
.Shashi Kapoor – Meena Kumari
.Salman Khan – Aishwarya Rai
.Naseeruddin Shah - Rekha
.Rajesh Khanna – Deepika Chikhalia
.Rakesh Roshan - Rekha
.Vinod Mehra – Bindiya Goswami
.Jeetendra - Babita
.Manoj Kumar – Meena Kumari
.Rajesh Khanna – Shabana (Bangladesh)
.Pradeep Kumar - Vyjyanthimala
.Shahrukh Khan - Kajol
.Amol Palekar – Zareena Wahab
.Rakesh Roshan – Jaya Prada
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