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Arundhati Nag[1] 
Occupation Actor, Director Years active 1980s–present Spouse Shankar Nag Arundhati Nag (née Rao) (Kannada: ಅರುಂಧತಿ ನಾಗ್ - ರಾವ್) is a prominent South Indian polyglot film actress and theatre personality. 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, besides getting involved in television, director Jyoti Vyas's Gujarati TV series, Haji Aavti Kaal Che. Later[2] and after her marriage to Kannada actor-director Shankar Nag (1954–1990), her association with theatre continued in Bangalore, culminating in realizing the dream project of her late husband, the Ranga Shankara theatre, at J P Nagar, a suburb in Bangalore.[3][4][5] She was awarded the 2008 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Theatre Acting by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Theatre.[6] She was also awarded the 57th National Film Awards as best supporting actress for her role in Paa
Arundathi is the founder and the Managing Trustee of the Sanket Trust, established in 1992,[1] which has Girish Karnad as its chairman,[7] and which runs the Ranga Shankara, a Bangalore theatre which after four years of construction was inaugurated on 28 October 2004.[4][8][9] Now the annual Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival has become a regular feature on Bangalore's cultural calendar.[10]
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Early life
She was born in Delhi, but her family moved to Mumbai when she was 10.[11] Arundhati was passionate about theatre in her school days. She joined an amateur theatre group in Mumbai and in her teen years, she was doing as many as 42 shows a month in Marathi, Gujarati, Hindi and English. [12]
Personal life
At 17, she met Shankar Nag, also a theatre artist. Six years later, the two got married and she moved to Bangalore. Shankar became popular film actor, and later a director, most remembered for his TV adaptation of RK Narayan's Malgudi Days (1987).[5] In 1990, the young couple and their daughter were travelling for the muhurat of a film, when a lorry hit their car in a head-on collision. Shankar Nag was killed instantly, Arundhati's legs were broken, her hands and face covered in bruises as also her daughter [12]
Career
In 2006, she was awarded the 'Citizen Extraordinaire' Award by The Rotary Club of Bangalore.[13] Arundathi's last major movie was the Kannada blockbuster Jogi,[14] for which she also won the Karnataka Government's Best Supporting Actress award for the year 2005.[15] Her most recent production has been Girish Karnad's Bikhre Bimb. Arundathi has also acted in other language films such as Minsara Kanavu (1997), dubbed into Hindi as Sapnay (1997), Dil Se (1998).
She has acted in the Indian National Award winning Marathi film 22 June 1897.[16] In 2009, she acted in the film Paa. Her role earned her a Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination.
Filmography
Actor
Year Film Language Role Other notes 1979 22 June 1897 Marathi 1983 Nodi Swamy Navirodu Hige Kannada Jaya 1985 Parameshi Prema Prasanga Kannada 1985 Accident Kannada Directed by Shankar Nag 1996 Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love Hindi Annabi 1996 Shiva Sainya Kannada 1997 Minsaara Kanavu Tamil Mother Superior 1998 Dil Se Hindi 2003 Ek Alag Mausam Hindi Aparna's mom 2005 Jogi Kannada Shivrajkumar's mother 2007 Chaurahen Hindi Nandakumar Nair 2009 Paa Hindi Vidya Balan’s mother Won National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress Assistant director
- A Passage to India (1984)
- Indian Summer'' (1987)
Awards
- 2005: Won: Best Supporting Actress Award - Jogi
- 2008: Won: Sangeet Natak Akademi Award - Theatre Acting
- 2010: Won: Star Screen Award Best Supporting Actress, Paa
- 2010: Nominated: Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award, Paa
- 2010: Won: National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress - Paa
References
- ^ a b Sanket Trust Ranga Shankara Official website.
- ^ Arundhati Nag Profile and Interview mumbaitheatreguide.com.
- ^ A theatre of one's own Frontline, Volume 21 - Issue 24, 20 November - 3 December 2004.
- ^ a b Dream of a theatre The Hindu, 21 November 2004.
- ^ a b Ready for an encore Times of India, 28 September 2003.
- ^ Sangeet Natak Akademi Award Sangeet Natak Akademi.
- ^ Ranga Shankara offers bonanza for theatre lovers in city The Hindu, 21 October 2005.
- ^ Managing Trustee The Hindu, 9 December 2006.
- ^ Arundhati Nag - Making The World See Her Dreams! South Asian Women's Forum, 7 March 2005.
- ^ Ranga Shankara theatre festival rolls on The Hindu, 16 November 2004.
- ^ Freedom to express - Arundhati Nag
- ^ a b Ready for an encore The Times of India
- ^ Arundathi bags Citizen Extraordinaire award The Hindu, 16 May 2006.
- ^ Return of Arundhati Nag - Plays a lead role in 'Jogi' starring ... viggy.com.
- ^ http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Malgudi+comes+alive+on+a+stamp&artid=FUNI4wpXXQc=&SectionID=Qz/kHVp9tEs=&MainSectionID=w44iAeuGCu8=&SectionName=UOaHCPTTmuP3XGzZRCAUTQ==&SEO=R%20K%20Narayan,Governor%20Hans%20Raj%20Bhardwaj
- ^ Kailashnath, Dr. Koppikar; [|Chheda, Subhash], 22 June 1897, Celebrating 25 years., http://www.rudraa.com/main/Marathi_22_June_1897.htm, retrieved 2009,03-06
External links
- Arundathi Nag at the Internet Movie Database
- Arundhati Nag: Life is beautiful - Interview Times of India
National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress 1985–2000 Rohini Hattangadi (1985) · Vijaya Mehta (1986) · Manjula Kanwar (1987) · Surekha Sikri (1988) · Uttara Baokar (1989) · Uttara Baokar (1990) · K. P. A. C. Lalitha (1991) · Santha Devi (1992) · Revathi (1993) · Neena Gupta (1994) · Surekha Sikri (1995) · Aranmula Ponnamma (1996) · Rajeshwari Sachdev (1997) · Karisma Kapoor (1998) · Suhasini Mulay (1999) · Sudeepa Chakravarthy and Sohini Haldar (2000)
2001–present K. P. A. C. Lalitha (2001) · Ananya Khare (2002) · Raakhee (2003) · Sharmila Tagore (2004) · Sheela (2005) · Urvashi (2006) · Konkona Sen Sharma (2007) · Shefali Shah (2008) · Kangna Ranaut (2009) · Arundathi Nag (2010) · Sukumari (2011)
Categories:- People from Karnataka
- Kannada film actors
- Indian film actors
- Indian stage actors
- Indian television actors
- Indian theatre directors
- Living people
- Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
- Recipients of the Padma Shri
- National Film Award winners
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