Famous Theatre Personalities Of India: Art & Culture for UPSC Exams

Alyque Padamsee, known as the ‘Communi- cations Guru of India’ has immensely contrib- uted to the advertising industry and the world of  theatre. As theatre director he staged as many as  63 plays in 50 years, with several of them becoming box office hits.  He has also produced plays like ‘Evita, Tuqlaq, and Jesus Christ  Super Star’.

 

Ferozkhan is another accomplished playwright who has to his credit several outstanding plays like ‘Tumhari, Amrita, Saalgirah, Mahatma Vs Gandhi and Salesman Ramlal.’

 

Girish Karnad is a very famous and talented playwright, director and an actor. His formi- dable works as a playwright include Yayathi (1961), Tughlaq (1964), Hayavadana (1971), Anjumallige (1977), Hittina Hunja (1980), Naga - Mandala (1988), Tale- danda (1990) and Agni Mattu Male (1995). All these plays were writ- ten originally in Kannada but were translated into other languages including Hindi and En- glish. He has also produced several radio plays and also acted in several renowned films. He had received many honours and awards.

 

One of the leading contemporary playwrights of  India, Dattani has produced 13 plays in- cluding one play called ‘Do The Needful’ for the BBC. He touched upon the sensitive issue of communalism in his play ‘ Final Solutions’ which won him Sahitya Academy Award.  His other important plays include ‘A Muggy Night in Mumbai’, ‘Dance Like a Man and Final So- lutions’ etc.

 

Pearl Padamsee was a noted theatre and film personality. Her notable directorial ventures in theatres include Godspell, Rise and Fall of Arturo Ui, Gieve Patel’s Princes,  Van Italy’s Serpent and Dostoevsky’s The Idiot. She was also a versatile actress. She died in April 2000 at the age of 69.

 

He is one of the most renowned play wrights of the Marathi theatre. His notable plays in- clude ‘Giddha’, ‘Khamosh’ - Adalat Jari Hai, Sakharam Binder, Ghasiram Kotwal, Kamla and Kanyadaan. Vijay Tendulkar has to his credit 28 full length plays, 25 one - act plays and 16 plays for children.

 

She is a well - known stage artist,  renowned for her acting in the famous play Ek Thi Nani

 

 

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