I told his son that I would like to make a film on it, and would get in touch after I got hold of some funds for it. 'However, this novel of Kuvempu has fascinated me for a long time. 'My first love has always been theatre and playwriting, so I devoted myself to that for the past 15 years,' the man who won the Jnanpith award this year told Rediff On the NeT at his home in J P Nagar at Bangalore. After that, he directed a short 80-minute film, Cheluvi, based on a simple folk tale about a girl who turns into a tree.

Karnad's last major directorial venture was all of 15 years ago: he directed Utsav based on Charudatta's Mrichchakatika. 'I find movie-making a very exhausting experience.' 'This may well be my last film ever,' says Karnad quite seriously.

This unusual film also brings together what Karnad himself describes as the 'old gang' of B V Karanth as music director, S Ramachandra as cameraman and Suresh Urs as editor. Karnad is hard at work on jointly directing a Hindi television serial and a Kannada commercial movie based on litterateur K V Puttappa's novel Kannoora Heggadthi. But any product by Girish Karnad, going by his past record, should certainly be worth viewing. It might have taken a caste-minded prime minister like Deve Gowda to get him behind the megaphone again. Rediff On The NeT, Movies: Girish Karnad explores his rootsĪ still from Kannoora Heggadthi.

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