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Nationality
  
Indian

Role
  
Film actress

Occupation
  
Actor, director

Spouse
  
Shankar Nag (m. ?–1990)


Years active
  
1980s–present

Name
  
Arundathi Nag

Children
  
Kavya Nag

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Born
  
6 July 1956
New Delhi, India

Movies
  
Jogi, Paa, Andhar Bahar, Kama Sutra: A Tale of Lo, Da Thadiya

Similar People
  
Shankar Nag, Anant Nag, Jennifer Kotwal, Ramesh Bhat, Master Manjunath

Organizations founded
  

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Arundhati Nag (née Rao) (born 6 July 1956) is a film and theatre actress. She has been involved with multilingual Theatre in India, for over 25 years, first in Mumbai where she got involved with Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA), and did various productions in Gujarati, Marathi, and Hindi theatre, and then in Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam and English, in Bangalore.

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Following her marriage to Kannada actor-director Shankar Nag (1954–1990), her association with theatre continued in Bangalore, where she performed several plays in Kannada: Girish Karnad's "Anju Mallige", "27 Mavalli Circle" based on the famous play 'Wait Until Dark', "Sandhya Chayya" (Jayant Dalvi), Girish Karnad's "Nagamandala", and Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage" as "Hulaguru Huliyavva". She also worked in several Kannada movies: "Accident" (1984), Parameshi Prema Prasanga" (1984) and "Nodiswamy, Navirodu Heege" (1987).

Nag went on to realise a long-time dream of building a theatre space dedicated to quality theatre in Bangalore: Ranga Shankara.

She is a recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (2008), the Padma Shri (2010) and the National Film Awards (57th) in 2010.

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Interview with Indian film and theatre actress Arundathi Nag


Career

Nag's career spans over 40 years of theatre, film and television. She is the founder and the Managing Trustee of the Sanket Trust, established in 1992, which runs Ranga Shankara, a theatre space in Bangalore.,. Ranga Shankara offers a quality theatre experience for theatre lovers in city. The annual Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival, now in its twelfth year, has become a regular feature on Bangalore's cultural calendar.

Nag continues to be actively involved in theatre: her most recent works include Girish Karnad's "Bikhre Bimb" (Hindi) and "Odakalu Bimba" (Kannada).

Her last major movie was The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016), in which she played the mother of the mathematical wizard Ramanujan. She has also appeared in Hindi movies including Paa (2009), "Sapnay" (1997) and "Dil Se" (1998), Kannada movies including Golibar (1991), Jogi (2005) and "Andar Bahar", and Malayalam Da Thadiya (2012)

Personal life

Nag was born in 1956 in Delhi. Her family moved to Mumbai when she was 10. At 17, she met Shankar Nag, also a theatre artist. Six years later, the two got married and moved to Bangalore. Shankar became a well-known film actor, and later a director, most remembered for his TV adaptation of R. K. Narayan's Malgudi Days (1987). They had a daughter together, Kaavya.

In 1990, Shankar died in a car accident. Arundhati continued to act in theatre, and began to work towards realising her dream of a theatre space, which in 2004, finally materialised into Ranga Shankara, which is today one of India's premier venues for theatre.

Assistant director

  • A Passage to India (1984)
  • Indian Summer (1987)
  • Awards

  • 1985: Won: Karnataka State Film Award for Best Supporting ActressAccident
  • 2005: Won: Best Supporting Actress Award, Karnataka State Awards – Jogi
  • 2006: Won: Citizen Extraordinaire' from the Rotary Club Bangalore
  • 2008: Won: Sangeet Natak Akademi Award – Theatre, Acting
  • 2010: Won: 57th National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress, Paa
  • 2010: Awarded: Padmashree Award
  • 2010: Won: Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress, Paa
  • 2010: Won: Star Cine Award for Best Supporting Actress, Paa
  • 2010: Conferred A Doctorate: for services rendered to the world of theatre, by Bijapur Women's University, Bijapur
  • Filmography

    Actress
    2022
    Medium Spicy as
    Laxmi Tipnis
    2020
    Raabta (Short) as
    Aru
    2018
    Drama as
    Rosamma John Chacko
    2015
    The Man Who Knew Infinity as
    Komalatammal
    2013
    Andar Bahar
    2012
    Da Thadiya as
    Knight Rider
    2009
    Paa as
    Vidya's Mother
    2007
    Chaurahen as
    Nandakumar Nair
    2005
    Jogi the King as
    Bhagyakka
    2003
    Ek Alag Mausam as
    Aparna's mom
    1999
    Kanooru Heggadithi
    1997
    Minsaara Kanavu
    1996
    Shiva Sainya
    1993
    Golibar as
    Bharathi
    1986
    Malgudi Days (TV Series) as
    Kamala
    - Leela's Friend (1986) - Kamala (as Arundhati Rao)
    1985
    Parameshi Prema Prasanga as
    Ramamani
    1983
    Nodi Swamy Navirodu Hige as
    Jaya Jagirdar
    Writer
    1981
    Geetha (story, screenplay)
    Art Department
    1980
    Minchina Oata (set designer)
    Costume Department
    1980
    Minchina Oata (costumer)
    Costume Designer
    1987
    Malgudi Days (TV Series) (1 episode)
    - Swami and Friends: Part 1 (1987)
    Miscellaneous
    1987
    Malgudi Days (TV Series) (hindi translation - 1 episode)
    - Swami and Friends: Part 1 (1987) - (hindi translation)

    References

    Arundathi Nag Wikipedia