{"id":313174,"date":"2019-06-10T05:48:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T05:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313174"},"modified":"2019-06-10T05:48:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T05:48:32","slug":"actor-filmmaker-girish-karnad-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/actor-filmmaker-girish-karnad-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor, filmmaker Girish Karnad passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-313175 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/girish-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"521\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/girish-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/girish.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Girish Karnad, a noted actor, filmmaker and playwright passed away on Monday morning. He was 81<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The actor took his last breath in Bengaluru. He was being treated for his prolonged illness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Karnad was last seen in Bollywood movie Tiger Zinda Hai. He was a recipient of the Jnanpith Award in 1998, the highest literary honour conferred in India. He was also conferred the Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan in the year 1974 and 1992 respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Karnad was born on May 19, 1938, in Maharashtra, he made his acting and screenwriting debut in a Kannada movie Samskara in 1970.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Several celebrities have taken to Twitter\u00a0to express grief on the demise of Girish Karnad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Actor Shruti Haasan said in a tweet, \u201cMay you rest in peace Girish Karnad sir. Your talent humour and sharp intellect will be missed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girish Karnad, a noted actor, filmmaker and playwright passed away on Monday morning. He was 81 The actor took his last breath in Bengaluru. He was being treated for his prolonged illness. Karnad was last seen in Bollywood movie Tiger Zinda Hai. He was a recipient of the Jnanpith Award in 1998, the highest literary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":313175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[11471],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313176,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313174\/revisions\/313176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/313175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}