![]() This was something I felt I knew instinctively. When theatre finally happened, I felt that something which I knew was coming back to me. “But because of studying in Kannada medium first and then English medium in Bombay, I lost out,” Nag said. His father sent him to Mumbai for higher studies at the age of 12 in the hope that he would become a doctor or an engineer. But never did it cross my mind that I could become an actor.” ![]() I would imitate people a lot and entertain small audiences. I grew up watching such films as Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baje, Amara Bhoopali, Ratnagiri Rahasya, films of V Shantaram and so on. “I would see Yakshagana and Bayalata performances as a child. ![]() “I grew up in Ananda Ashram and had very spiritual moorings till I was about 12,” he recalled. Nag grew up in Bhatkal in Karnataka and moved to Mumbai to finish his studies. Of course, the mass-hero films are also being made, but the percentage of their success has come down very heavily.” “A number of youngsters are coming forward to make interesting films. “There is a lot of interesting work that is happening today in Kannada,” Nag said. Nag is also gearing up for key roles in Hemanth Rao’s Kavaludaari and Rishab Shetty’s untitled film about the state of affairs of Kannada-medium schools. March 22, a film about water conservation, has been released in Dubai. With more than 300 titles, Nag continues to be a regular presence in most of the big Kannada productions. This apart from also appearing in Marathi and Malayalam films. Slowly, alongside a steady career in arthouse films in Kannada and Hindi, Nag nurtured an even more successful career in commercial cinema in Kannada. The 69-year-old actor and politician made a quiet debut with Kannada film Sankalpa in 1973. ![]() Nag cut his teeth in parallel cinema after a career in theatre. I had got the stamp of approval from none other than Shyam Benegal himself.” I had told myself then that I needn’t be conscious of how I look anymore. “Benegal asked me to first look to my left, then to my right and then finally told Dubey, okay, he has a photogenic face. “Sometime in the early 1970s in Bombay, theatre director Satyadev Dubey took me to meet Shyam Benegal,” Nag recalled. After a moment of contemplation, he smiled and gave the go-ahead. He hadn’t shaved, and felt that he should have been better dressed. Sitting on the steps in front of his house in Bengaluru, Nag hesitated when asked if he could be photographed. Only then can he mould his talent or fit into the skin of different characters and stories.” “Who or what is a movie star?” asked the Kannada screen icon. ![]() Unfortunately, his life was cut short due to an unforeseen car crash that took place in the Anagodu village on the outskirts of Davanagere town on September 30, 1990, where he died on the spot.Fifty years into a successful acting career – five years on the stage and 45 in front of the camera – Anant Nag does not feel like a movie star. Her brother-in-law Shankar Nag was a well-known actor and director who rose to fame with his work on Malgudi Days.Besides being an actor, her husband Anant is also a politician who had attained the post of an MLC, MLA, and a minister in J.Her acting credits include various Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, and Tamil films including Tapasya (1976), Mera Rakshak (1978), Safed Haathi (1978), Mogudu_Kaavali (1980), Muqaddar Ka Sikander (1979), Auto Raja (1980), Vasantha Geetha (1980), Aarada Gaaya (1980), Rusthum Jodi (1980), and Sigappu Malargal (1986).Later, in 1980, she made her first Kannada language theatrical film appearance Auto Raja. Gayathri made her debut Hindi film appearance in Tapasya in 1976. ![]()
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