MEG 14 - Block-7 Tughlaq : Girish Karnad
Unit-1 Introducing Contemporary Indian Literature
History of modern theatre in India begins with Shombhu Mitra who made Nabanna, inspired by man made famine in Bengal in 1944 and became the father of modern Indian theatre.
Theatre in Bengal
Theatre in Maharashtra-
Playwright aren’t directors unlike bengal
Screenplays were getting censored or running into problems
Human Curtain
Mime songs & dance from folk & Sutradhar
Realistic Plays
Malayalam theatre
Manipuri theatre
Kannada drama-
Widow remarriage
Greek tragedy inspired play
From epics like Mahabharatha
Plays with a protest against professional; theatre
From mythology
Indian independence
Folk technique music and dance and language
Social issues
Unit-2 Introducing The Author and the Play
Girish karnard
Born 19 May 1938 in Maharashtra
Padmashree in 1974
List of plays on pg2
His films
Awards pg8
Choice if language
All plays in Kannada except for dreams of tipu sultan which was in English. He translated all his plays except for Yayati. His mother tongue is Konkani but grew up speaking kannada.
How tughlaq came-
karnard took the challenge from critic Kiritnath who said there are no good historical plays in Kannada. Karnard was studying in Oxford at that he read about tughlaq who was called the wisest fool.
Storyline of the play.
Unit-3 Tughlaq : Structure, Themes and Motifs
Theme of power and its tragic misuse.
2 tughlaqs- one is visionary the other is pragmatic politician.
He fails bcz he isn't able to reconcile 2 faces of power in his mental make up. He thinks only he is right. The addictive nature of power is shown as well. He loses all his confidant and is left alone. Barani's advice doesn't suit him, his mother felt like a competition and he killed his other friend.
Aziz- his graduation from money to power. Wealth does not satisfy him. Plus he needs power for self indulgence.
Tughlaq has to crown Aziz as he can not disown the mirror image of himself. Aziz represents power at its ugliest.
Symbols used in the play
1. Disguise
2. The game of Chess
3. Prayer
4. Disguise and resemblance
Role playing on stage in real life. Tughlaq constantly needed an audience and he was an actor throughout his life.
Both Aziz and Tughlaq suffer from the Identity crisis.
The play is an excellent tragedy that depicts the struggle and failure of a poet who wants to become a ruler, a visionary who desires to establish a utopia.
Unit-4 Characters and Critical Comments on the Play
Different characters from the book
Muhammad
Vazier Muhammad Najib
Stepmother
Ziad ud din Barani
Sheik imamuddin
Shihab ud din
Aziz
Ghiyas ud din abbasid
Play in performance
Written in 1964 first produced at indian National theatre at bombay in Kannada in 1965.
Available in kannada, hindi urdu, marathi, bengali, gujrati and english.
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