Mangalore: Theatre Personality, M S Ibrahim, No More
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)
Mangalore, Oct 7: M S Ibrahim (85), who had served Tulu, Kannada and Konkani theatres as a dramatist, actor, and director, and had also contributed to the field of Yakshagana, breathed his last in a private hospital here on Wednesday October 6. Ibrahim, a resident of Mannagudda in the city, is survived by wife, three sons, and two daughters.
After retiring as a teacher of Karnataka Polytechnic in the city, he had set up ‘M S Arts’ in Mannagudda, of which he functioned as the honorary director. This organization used to impart training in plays and Yakshagana fields, besides providing paraphernalia, costumes, screens, make up services etc., for plays and Yakshagana performances. All his five children are trained artistes.
Ibrahim had authored social, historical and mythological plays in Tulu, Kannada, Konkani and English languages. Comic roles in plays and Yakshagana episodes were his forte. He also wrote Yakshagana episodes in Beary language. Besides writing articles in various languages, he had also published these articles in book form.
He worked as a member of Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy between 1998 and 2001. He had won district level Rajyotsava awards in 1992 and 1996, besides bagging a number of awards, felicitations and titles.
Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy and various dignitaries have mourned the death of M S Ibrahim.