Arundathi Nag

Arundhati Nag
Nag in 2010
Born Arundhati Rao
(1956-07-06) 6 July 1956
Delhi, India
Nationality Indian
Occupation Actress
Years active 1973–present
Spouse(s)
Shankar Nag
(m. 1980; d. 1990)
Children 1
Relatives Padmavati Rao (sister)[1]

Arundhati Nag (née Rao) (born 6 July 1956)[2] 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.

They stayed in Chintamani , Karnataka for a few years.

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).[3]

Nag went on to realise a long-time dream of building a theatre space dedicated to quality theatre in Bangalore Ranga Shankara: .[4][5][6][7] She is a recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (2008), the Padma Shri (2010) and the National Film Awards (57th) in 2010.[8][9]

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.,.[10][11] Ranga Shankara offers a quality theatre experience for theatre lovers in city.[12][13] The annual Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival, now in its twelfth year, has become a regular feature on Bangalore's cultural calendar.[14]

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, stayed in Netaji Nagar. Her family moved to Mumbai when she was 10. At 17, she met Shankar Nag, also a theatre artist.[15] 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).[7] 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.

Filmography

Actor

YearFilmLanguageRoleOther notes
197922 June 1897Marathi
1983Nodi Swamy Navirodu HeegeKannadaJaya
1985Parameshi Prema PrasangaKannada
1985AccidentKannadaMaya RaniKarnataka State Film Award for Best Supporting Actress
1993GolibarKannada
1996Shiva SainyaKannada
1997Minsaara KanavuTamilMother Superior
1998Dil Se..HindiAIR director
2003Ek Alag MausamHindiAparna's mother
2005JogiKannadaBhagyakkaKarnataka State Film Award for Best Supporting Actress
2007ChaurahenHindiNandakumar Nair
2009PaaHindiVidya Balan's mother/BumNational Film Award for Best Supporting Actress
2012Da ThadiyaMalayalam"Knight Rider"
2013Andhar BaharKannada
2016The Man Who Knew InfinityEnglishSrinivasa Ramanujan's mother
2018DramaMalayalamFilming

Assistant director

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Iyengar, Vidya (19 June 2016). "'I lead my life in disbelief'". Bangalore Mirror. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  2. ↑ "Curtain call". harmonyindia.org. Archived from the original on 10 November 2014. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
  3. ↑ Arundhati Nag Profile and Interview mumbaitheatreguide.com.
  4. ↑
  5. ↑ A theatre of one's own Frontline, Volume 21 – Issue 24, 20 November – 3 December 2004.
  6. ↑ Dream of a theatre The Hindu, 21 November 2004.
  7. 1 2 "Ready for an encore". The Times of India. 28 September 2003.
  8. ↑ Sangeet Natak Akademi Award Sangeet Natak Akademi.
  9. ↑ "Padmashree". Archived from the original on 1 October 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  10. ↑ Sanket Trust
  11. ↑ Ranga Shankara
  12. ↑ The HinduManaging Trustee, 9 December 2006.
  13. ↑ Arundhati Nag – Making The World See Her Dreams! South Asian Women's Forum, 7 March 2005.
  14. ↑ Ranga Shankara theatre festival rolls on The Hindu, 16 November 2004.
  15. ↑ Jayaraman, Pavitra (15 August 2009). "Freedom to express: Arundhati Nag". Livemint. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  16. ↑ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 November 2014. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
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