Who wrote the play 'Wedding Album'?

"Wedding Album" is a play by Girish Karnad, written in Kannada (as "Maduve Album") and in English, and first performed in 2009.

About the play:

• It is set in a middle-class family in Bengaluru, preparing for the arranged marriage of their daughter Vidula to a young Indian software engineer living in the USA.
• Through the preparations, the play shows the tensions, hidden desires and secrets within the family, and the clash between tradition and modern globalised life.

About Girish Karnad (1938-2019):

• He was born in Matheran, Maharashtra, and grew up in Karnataka.
• He studied at Karnatak University, Dharwad, and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford.
• He wrote mainly in Kannada and translated many of his plays into English himself.

His famous plays include:

• "Yayati" (1961): his first play, based on the Mahabharata story of a king who exchanges his old age for his son's youth.
• "Tughlaq" (1964): about the Delhi Sultan Muhammad bin Tughlaq; seen as a comment on the idealism and disillusionment of the Nehru era.
• "Hayavadana" (1971): based on a story from the "Kathasaritsagara" and Thomas Mann's "The Transposed Heads".
• "Naga-Mandala" (1988).
• "Tale-Danda" (1990): about Basavanna and the Veerashaiva movement in the 12th century.
• "The Fire and the Rain" (Agni Mattu Male).
• He was also an actor and director in films, such as "Samskara" (1970), "Manthan" (1976), "Nishant", "Swami", the TV series "Malgudi Days" (as Swami's father), and later "Ek Tha Tiger".
• He received the Jnanpith Award (1998), the Padma Shri (1974) and the Padma Bhushan (1992).
• He was Director of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) and Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi.

Other Indian playwrights:

• Vijay Tendulkar (Marathi): "Ghashiram Kotwal", "Sakharam Binder".
• Mahesh Dattani (English): "Final Solutions", "Dance Like a Man"; first English-language playwright to win the Sahitya Akademi Award (1998).
• Badal Sircar (Bengali): "Evam Indrajit"; pioneer of "Third Theatre".

Why not the other options?

• ✗Vijay Tendulkar wrote "Ghashiram Kotwal".
• ✗Mahesh Dattani wrote "Final Solutions".
• ✗Badal Sircar wrote "Evam Indrajit".