Featuring the life of a noted playwright and theatre director BV Karanth, a three-day event ‘Aadaranjali’ is being organised at Bharat Bhavan. Organized by Rangmandal wing or Bharat Bhavan, the event would begin from September 1 and would conclude on September 3.
Babukodi Venkataramana Karanth was a renowned film and theatre personality from India. Throughout his life he was director, actor and musician of modern Indian theatre both in Kannada as well as Hindi and one of the pioneers of Kannada and Hindi new wave cinema. He was an alumnus of the National School of Drama (1962) and later, its director. He has directed many successful plays and has directed award winning Kannada movies.
The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri. Karanth directed over a hundred plays, more than half of which were in Kannada with Hindi close behind. He also directed plays in English, Telugu, Malayalam, Punjabi, Urdu, Sanskrit and Gujarati. Hayavadana, Jokumara Swami, Sattavara Neralu, Huttava Badidare and Gokula Nirgamana are some of his most popular plays in Kannada. Of the forty or so plays he directed in Hindi, Macbeth, King lear, Chandrahasa, Hayavadana, Ghasiram Kotwal are some of the more popular ones. Karanth also reveled in directing children and directed several children plays like Panjara Shale and The Grateful Man.
On the first day of the event, a photo exhibition portraying the life of Karanth would be displayed at Rangadarshini gallery following the discussion by Ram Gopal Bajaj and Atul Tiwari. On September 2, a Hindi play directed by Girish Karnad Banglore, ‘Bikhrey Bimb would be staged followed by another play Gokul Nirman by BV Karanth would be staged on September 3.