Anant Nag

Anant Nag Bio :

Born: 4 September 1948
Age : 70 years
Birthplace : Girgaum Chowpatty, Mumbai
Height: 1.8 m
Spouse: Gayathri Iyer (m. 1987)
TV shows: Malgudi Days

Anant Nag or Anant Nagarkatte is an actor, theatre personality and a politician. He hails from Bombay (Now Mumbai) and born on 4th September 1948 in Bombay and brought up in this city. He works primarily in South Indian films along with Marathi and other regional cinema. Hails from Konkani family, he did his schooling from Catholic School Udupi and later went to Ananda Ashrama based in South Karnataka and later in Chitrapur Math in North Karnataka in Mysore. He then returned to Bombay to complete his college and soon was got drawn to theatre movement/ He then acted in regional plays in languages like Marathi, Konkani and Kannada.

His career in acting started with theatres in Bombay. His first play was Chaitanya Mahaprabhu wherein he played the role of a Hindu Monk. It was a big hit, and his performance was applauded. In hsi initial days he played some mythological characters and was applauded for his performances. He worked with veteran directors like Girish Karnad and K. K. Suvarna. He also worked with Satyadev Dubey and Amol Palekar mostly playing for a number of politically relevant plays. He then got two movie offers Sankalpa and Ankur by Shyam Benegal. His first film was in Kannada in 1973.

Some of his movies in the seventies like Chandanada Gombe, Benkiya Bale, Naa Ninna Bidaalare, Ibbani Karagitu, Mududida Taavare Aralitu, Makkaliralavva Mane Thumba, and Amma were among the blockbusters and made him another household name in the late seventies. His comedy films include Ganeshana Maduve, Udbava, Gauri Ganesha, Undoohoda, Beladingala Baale, Konduhoda, Hasyaratna Ramakrishna, Dairya Lakshmi, and Yarigu Helbedi. This continued to the eighties and finally, when TV came, he also was seen in the small screen. He acted in Malgudi Days, which was directed by his younger brother.

Since he stayed in Mumbai, he has remained the part of the Socialist movement, but in the eighties, he joined Janatha Party and emerged as its star campaigner. In 1983, he also contested an election in Karnataka but lost against the veteran writer. In 1994, he won the elections for the Malleshwaram constituency and was in the ministry in the J. H. Patel’s cabinet. He remained active in Karnataka politics and had contested several elections in 2004 and still active in politics. He bagged several awards for his early movies getting best actor and other categories. Talking about his personal life, he is married and has one daughter.

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