Janak Dave

Janak Harilal Dave (born 14 June 1930) is a Gujarati dramatist, theater actor and drama teacher from Gujarat, India. Dave was born on 14 June 1930 at Bhavnagar in British India, to his father Harilal, and mother, Chaturabahen. He passed his matriculation in 1955, and worked at a preschool for seven or eight years. In 1957, he joined the music college affiliated with M. S. University, Vadodara, where he studied dramaturgy under Chandravadan Mehta and Jasvant Thaker, earning his bachelors and masters with first class honours.