As per our current Database, Girish Karnard is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).
Currently, Girish Karnard is 85 years, 10 months and 9 days old. Girish Karnard will celebrate 86rd birthday on a Sunday 19th of May 2024. Below we countdown to Girish Karnard upcoming birthday.
Popular As | Girish Karnard |
Occupation | Playwright |
Age | 85 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Taurus |
Born | May 19, 1938 (India) |
Birthday | May 19 |
Town/City | India |
Nationality | India |
Girish Karnard’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.
Girish Karnard was born in the Year of the Tiger. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Tiger are authoritative, self-possessed, have strong leadership qualities, are charming, ambitious, courageous, warm-hearted, highly seductive, moody, intense, and they’re ready to pounce at any time. Compatible with Horse or Dog.
An award-winning playwright and Kannada filmmaker, he became one of India's leading public intellectuals. His notable dramatic works include Tughalak (1964) and Taledanda (1990).
In his youth, he joined an amateur theater group in Chennai and began writing plays steeped in mythology and philosophy.
His enormous body of work earned great critical acclaim from both Indian and American filmmakers, authors, and critics.
He was born in Matheran, Maharashtra. In his youth, he attended numerous traveling theater productions with his arts-enthusiast parents.
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