Girish Raghunath Karnad (19 May 1938 – 10 June 2019)[1] was an Indian actor, movie director, screenwriter,[2] playwright and a Rhodes Scholar. His works were based in Kannada.[3] He was a recipient of the 1998 Jnanpith Award.[4] 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).