By Rons Bantwal
Daijiworld Media Network—Mumbai (RD/CN)

Mumbai, Feb 4: GSB Sabha–Matunga, announced that it has chosen Kamalaksha Saraf, veteran Konkani theater artiste and metro’s well-known social activist, for the ‘Talent Award–2011’.

The Award will be conferred during the annual get-together on ‘Gudipadya’ on Sunday April 24.

Kamalaksha Saraf

Kamalaksha Saraf was born in Shirali, Karnataka, in 1952. He had migrated to the metro after completing his high school studies. He had completed B Com in the metro in 1971 and post graduation studies as company secretary in 1983.

Saraf has been involved in the religious affairs of Ram Mandir in the central suburb of Wadala and is a long serving secretary of Ganeshotsav committee.

He is the founder member of Konkani Triveni Kala Sangama, a Konkani drama troupe, and acted in many plays in the past three decades. Saraf is a well-known humorist and has acted in ‘Nandadeepa’, the Konkani play that was translated from Marathi into Konkani by Dr Chandrashekar Shenoy which entered the Limca Book of Records due to the number of shows.

Saraf translated the Konkani play ‘Nandadeepa’ into Kannada and it has been staged across the metro under the banner Kannada Kala Kendra.