Murugaboopathy ( ta, .ச.முருகபூபதி) (born 29 April 1971) is a Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar award winning playwright from the Tamil Nadu state of India. The award was presented to him in 2011 by Sangeet Natak Akademi.

Personal life

Murugaboopathy's elder brothers are the Tamil short-story writers Tamilselvan and Konangi a postmodern Tamil writer. He grew up in Naagalapuram and Nenmeni Mettupatti and he currently lives in

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, Tamil Nadu. His maternal grandfather ‘Madurakavi' Baskaradoss was a popular playwright, his father M.S. Shanmugam is a novelist, short-story writer and poet. He did his masters in theatre-arts from Pondicherry University.

Career

Murugaboopathy started his acting career in theatre from his brother's street theatre group ''Shristi''. He acted in the street play "Safdar Hashmi Nataka Kuzhu" that paid tribute to the theatre activist

Safdar Hashmi Safdar Hashmi (12 April 1954 – 2 January 1989) was a communist playwright and director, best known for his work with street theatre in India. He was also an actor, lyricist, and theorist, and he is still considered an important voice in Indian ...

and took the play to more than 150 villages. Later his first play in 1993 as writer was ''Marana Veetin Kurippukal'', which was based on the Fyodor Dostoyevsky's ''Notes From a Dead House''. His next 1994 play ''Sarithirathin Atheetha Museum'' was about the crimes in third world countries. His 2013 play ''Soorpanangu'' was based on the atrocities and plight of women. The play was released in the backdrop of the

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incident.

Works

* 1993 - ''Marana Veetin Kurippukal'' * 1994 - ''Sarithirathin Atheetha Museum'' * 2000 - ''Vanathathi'' * 2000 - ''Koondhal Nagaram'' * 2002 - ''Uthira Mugamoodi'' * 2006 - ''Chemmoothai'' * 2009 - ''Kutram Patriya Udal'' * 2010 -
Mirugavidhushagam
' * 2011 -
Soorpanangu
' * 2013 - ''Kuhaimaravasigal'' * 2015 -
Mayakkomalikalin Jalakkannadi
' * 2016 -

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References

External links

Mirugavidhushagam : Contemporary theme and haunting idioms
{{authority control Living people Tamil dramatists and playwrights People from Virudhunagar district 1971 births Indian male dramatists and playwrights Dramatists and playwrights from Tamil Nadu Pondicherry University alumni