Indian actress, theatre personality
Arundhati Nag
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Arundhati_Nag.jpg/220px-Arundhati_Nag.jpg) Arundhati in 2010
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Born
| Arundhati Rao
1955 or 1956 (age 67?68)
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Occupation
| Actress
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Years active
| 1973?present
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Spouse
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(
m.
1980; died 1990)
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Children
| 1
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Relatives
| Padmavati Rao
(sister) ;
Ananth Nag
(Brother-in-law) ;
Gayatri (actress)
(co-sister)
[2]
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Arundhati Nag
(nee
Rao
; born 1955/1956
[1]
) is an Indian 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
(1980?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 built a theatre space in Bangalore
Ranga Shankara
: .
[4]
[5]
[6]
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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
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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]
The annual
Ranga Shankara
Theatre Festival, now in its twelfth year, has become a regular feature on Bangalore's cultural calendar.
[12]
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) and
Drama (2018 film)
Personal life
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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.
[13]
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
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Actor
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Assistant director
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Awards
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References
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External links
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Awards for Arundhati Nag
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