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When a genius like Girish Karnad, the playwright, who wrote his most famous play, Tughlaq, at the age of 25 only and won Jnanapith award for writing plays in 1999, joins hands with another genius Shashi Kapoor, a film producer who dares to make different and sensible cinema and tries to carry cinema to new heights, then only a film like Utsav borns. Girish Karnad had made his foray in hindi cinema by directing Godhuli in 1977 and Shashi Kapoor as a producer had already made, Junoon and Kalyug with Shyam Benegal and Vijeta with Govind Nihalani and 36 Chaurangee Lane with Aparna Sen.
Going back in time was not new for Girish Karnad as his plays though dealt with the centuries old subjects or mythological and historical characters and yet they also brought modern sensibilities and social and psychological conflicts before the readers/audience. Girish Karnad?s plays go back to …