girish raghunath karnad (19 may 1938 – 10 june 2019) was an indian actor, movie director, screenwriter, playwright and a rhodes scholar. his works were based in kannada. he was a recipient of the 1998 jnanpith award. his best acting roles were as guruji in "iqbal" (2005) and as dr. shenoy in "ek tha tiger" (2012) and in the sequel "tiger zinda hai" (2017).