Distinguished Lecture by Shri Mahesh Dattani

Date: January 23, 2014
Venue: University of Hyderabad
Topic: Me and My Plays
Speaker: Shri Mahesh Dattani
About the speaker:
Mahesh Dattani is a playwright, stage-director, screenwriter and filmmaker. His published work includes Final Solutions and Other plays, Tara, Collected plays and Brief Candle and Other plays.
In 1998, he became the first Indian playwright i English to receive the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award for his Final Solutions and Other Plays.
His plays have been produced in major cities of India and also in London, Colombo, New York, Sydney, Dubai etc.
His film Mango Souffle was adjudged the best motion picture at the 2003 Barcelona Film FEstival and his other film Morning Raga wom him the award for the best artistic contribution at the 2004 Cairo Film Festival.
The photo-documentation of this lecture is available at:
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Copyrights@2014, University of Hyderabad.
Visual Documentation by Wings and Oars Media Comm, Hyderabad, India.

[@shillongbong]

When one's play is added in a syllabus, it is important for students and teachers equally to know what the playwright actually thinks or thought of while he/s pened and staged it too. This video for sure works as a prologue to understand all that has been written by Dattani. Thank you!

[@thegoldenbird9]

"Convent Educated Pretentious Creatures" Well said Sir.

[@iyarup]

Very useful video

[@rajeshkumarpatra3515]

A fabulously vivid and clear cut lecture without any pretension.👍👍