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Girish Raghunath Karnad was an actor, film director, and Kannada writer from India. He is the recipient of the Jnanpith Award for Kannada, Nation's highest literary honour. Karnad has been writing plays for four decades, typically employing history and mythology to address modern challenges. He also worked in Indian cinema as an actor, director, and screenwriter, winning various accolades along the way. Karnad is most known for his work as a playwright. His Kannada-language plays have been widely translated into English and other major Indian languages. In light of their limited freedom and insular way of life, the female protagonists in Girish Karnad's Plays will be examined in this article. Pretending that Karnad's female characters are incapable of asserting their femininity and identity reduces them to silent victims in the face of an aggressive and hostile patriarchy. The goal of this essay is to look at Girish Karnad's female characters' love problems and psychological truths. Girish Karnad is one of the most important writers in contemporary Indian drama. In addition, the article will look at women's marginalisation and female sensibility in Indian society