Timeri N. Murari

Timeri Murari is an Indian novelist, journalist, playwright and screenwriter. He is the author of fourteen published novels, including best-sellers The Taliban Cricket Club (2012) and Taj (2007), and has written extensively for Indian and international newspapers including The Guardian. He has also written the screenplay of the award-winning Hindi movie Daayraa (1997), which was voted one of the ten best films of 1997 by Time magazine. He adapted and directed it as a stage play, The Square Circle, at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre in November 1999, starring Parminder Nagra. His latest novel is called Chanakya Returns.

Early Years

Murari was born and raised in Madras, India and studied at Bishop Cottons School, Bangalore. He left India for the UK when he was 18 years old to study electronic engineering. He later switched majors to History and Political Science at the McGill University, Montreal. While at university, he began writing for The Guardian and other international newspapers.

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Anargharāghava

The Anargharāghava (Devanagari अनर्घराघव) is a dramatised retelling of the Ramayana, and one of the most challenging pieces of classical Sanskrit poetry. It is the only surviving work by Murāri, a Brahmin court poet, who lived some time between the 8th and 10th century CE, perhaps in Orissa or in neighbouring South India.

Because of its elegant style, learned allusions and often striking imagery, the poem has been a great favourite among pandits , although it received little attention in the West until recently. The well-known epic story of Rama’s exploits is presented as a series of political intrigues and battles, and contrasted with lyrical passages of various kinds: on love and war, pride and honor, gods and demons, rites and myths, regions and cities of ancient India.

The play has little action — most fights and events take place behind the scenes or between acts — focussing instead on diction and other elements of dramatic representation, reminiscent of the Keralan Kutiyattam tradition. Although Kutiyattam representations are envisaged for dramas with more action than the Anargharāghava, actual performances — which normally include only one episode of a play at one go — often resemble spectacular chanting recitations of poetry interspersed with well-choreographed movements rather than what one would normally call theatre.

Murari (film)

Murari is a 2001 Telugu supernatural family drama thriller film written, directed & edited by Krishna Vamsi. The film was produced by Nandigam Gopi on Ram Prasad Arts banner and was presented by N Devi Prasad and Ramalingeswara Rao. It features Mahesh Babu in the titular role while Sonali Bendre, Lakshmi, Sukumari, Kaikala Satyanarayana and Gollapudi Maruthi Rao play important roles. Mani Sharma composed the music while Bhupati handled the cinematography. Peter Hein debuted as choreographer of action sequences with this film. It also marked the last on screen appearance of veteran Telugu actor Dhulipala Seetarama Sastry.

The film revolves around a person named Murari whose ancestors starting from an evil zamindar in the mid-19th century die accidentally once in every 48 years because of a curse by Goddess Sri Durga on the zamindar's heirs. When Murari's marriage with his love Vasundhara is rejected by his grandmother Sabari, he comes to know about the curse a day later. The rest of the film is how Murari, the victim of Goddess Sri Durga's curse this year, overcomes the curse. The film released on 16 February 2001 and is considered as one of the classic in Telugu cinema. The film was dubbed into Tamil with the same name due to Sonali Bendre's popularity there. The film was remade in Kannada as Gopi with Murali playing the lead role.The film was dubbed in Hindi with the name Rowdy Cheetah.