About Playwight:
Mohan
Rakesh was born on
January 8, 1925
in
Amritsar, Punjab. He did
his M.A. in English and Hindi from Punjab University, Lahore
His noted novels are "Andhere Band
Kamare" (Closed Dark Rooms) and Na Aane Wala Kal. His plays "Aashad
Ka Ek Din" (One Day in Aashad) (1958), play a major role in
reviving Hindi theatre in 1960s and Adhe Adhure (The Incomplete Ones
or Halfway House) (1959) are highly regarded.
"Leheron Ke Raj Hans' (The Swans of
the Waves), the most noted play of Mohan Rakesh, an ancient Buddhist
tale on the renunciation of the Buddha, and its after affects on his
close family, was first written as short story and later turned it
into a radio play for Radio
Jalandhar, and broadcast
under the title "Sundri", though his struggle over different
versions of the play lasted for nearly 20 years, before creating his
masterpiece. In 2005, this very writing process of the play, and
Mohan Rakesh’s diary, writings, letters about the play, was
recreated in play titled “Manuscript”, by a Delhi theater group.
His story, Uski Roti (A Day's
Bread) was made into an epnoymous film, by
Mani Kaul in 1971, for
which he also wrote the screenplay.
Literary work
Novels
-
Na Aane Wala Kal
-
Andhere Band Kamre
-
Antral
-
Bakalama khuda (1974)
Plays
-
Aadhe Adhure (Halfway House)
-
Leheron Ke Raj Hans
-
Ashadh ka ek Din (One Day in Ashadha)
-
Mohan Rakesh ke Sampurn Natak, 1993, Rajpal.
-
Rata bitane taka tatha anya dhvani nataka, 1974,
Radhakrishna Prakashan.
Translation
Story anthologies (Kahani Sangrah)
Other works
