Arundathi Nag

Arundhati Nag
Arundhati in 2010
Born
Arundhati Rao

1955 or 1956 (age 67–68)[1]
Delhi, India
OccupationActress
Years active1973–present
Spouse
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(m. 1980; died 1990)​
Children1
RelativesPadmavati Rao (sister) ; Ananth Nag (Brother-in-law) ; Gayatri (actress) (co-sister)[2]

Arundhati Nag (née 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][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]

  1. ^ a b "Curtain call". harmonyindia.org. Archived from the original on 15 December 2010. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
  2. ^ Iyengar, Vidya (19 June 2016). "'I lead my life in disbelief'". Bangalore Mirror. Archived from the original on 23 March 2018. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  3. ^ Arundhati Nag Profile and Interview Archived 7 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine mumbaitheatreguide.com.
  4. ^ "Home Events - RangaShankara". Archived from the original on 30 June 2016. Retrieved 22 October 2008.
  5. ^ A theatre of one's own[usurped] Frontline, Volume 21 – Issue 24, 20 November – 3 December 2004.
  6. ^ Dream of a theatre Archived 22 August 2005 at the Wayback Machine The Hindu, 21 November 2004.
  7. ^ "Ready for an encore". The Times of India. 28 September 2003. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
  8. ^ Sangeet Natak Akademi Award Sangeet Natak Akademi.
  9. ^ "Padmashree". Archived from the original on 1 October 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2016.