Girish Karnad Movies

About the saints Kanaka and Purandara who led the Bhakti movement, which insisted that theological language be spoken in popular dialect rather than...

A personal portrait of director Shyam Benegal, made by his collaborator, Khalid Mohammed

Through the story of a young widow who is devoted to her father-in-law but also desires to remarry the film portrays evolving Indian attitudes...

Prerna is the only daughter of the local school's headmaster. She gets to meet her childhood friend, Kumar, who is now one of the teachers at the...

A doctor with amnesia starts treating patients when he remembers how to use surgical instruments. Meanwhile, his wife and daughter, who get banished...

Steeped in tradition, a village elder defies social scorn to preserve the dying art of Kuchipudi dance. Ostracized for training a young woman, he...

Subbamma (Tara), third wife of Chandre Gowda (Girish Karnad), is a rebellious mistress of the household and encourages sporadic acts of defiance...