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The late actor Girish Karnad, who is known for the Salman Khan-starrer ‘Ek Tha Tiger’, once spoke about how his background in mathematics helped him mount theatre plays.
Jnanpith winner and noted theatre personality, actor and playwright Girish Karnad passed away at his home on June 10, 2019. He was 81. (Photo: IANS)
The late actor Girish Karnad, who is known for the Salman Khan-starrer ‘Ek Tha Tiger’, once spoke about how his background in mathematics helped him mount theatre plays.
An old video of the actor, shared by the Indian public broadcaster Prasar Bharati, shows him talking about cross-wiring of art and science.
He said in the video, “I find it very hard to put things in a play, I need to distance myself from them, I need to give it a form, and I think this is where my mathematical training was such
a great help. It helps me to put it in a shape and a form and distance it, giving it a formal look. The myths or folktales are easier to handle than raw immediate experience for me. And
thirdly, I find that with the use of myths and folk tales and so on, you are able to tap, because people already know these tales, they already know, you share these, there is a community
feeling in India, a community which shares these folk tales and myths and so on”.
He further mentioned, “So, you can just pick out on what you like, take a lot for granted and develop or go into greater depth. You know, unlike a novel, as you know, a play has to be over
if it stays in two to two and a half hours”.
