He also got opportunities to play major roles in Amol Palekar and Satyadev Dubey’s socially and politically relevant plays. He also collaborated with popular playwrights like K.K. Anant was highly drawn to the theatre movement of Mumbai.
He was selected for Konkani, Kannada, and Marathi-language plays which he did until he turned 22. He played the part of a Hindu monk in the play Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in his first play, which was widely appreciated by the audience. He was noticed by prominent theatre personalities Prabhakar Mudur and Venkatrao Talageri to participate in plays. In an interview, Anant Nag revealed that while he was distributing his sister’s wedding cards, someone offered him work in theatre because of his good looks. The Times of India AddressĪditi, 4th Cross, RMV Extension, Sanjaynagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka Career As a Theatre Artist Hinduism The Times of India Caste/Ethnicity Reportedly, he was engaged to Priya Tendulkar, who was the aunt of Sachin Tendulkar. His maternal grandfather was Bantwal Sadashiva Bhat. The Times of IndiaĪnant Nag with his father and daughter Maternal Grandfather Approximately 14 years later, in 1976, he returned to Banglore after becoming a full-fledged actor in Mumbai. Later, he joined a commerce college in Bandra and worked in the Union Bank for three years, after getting a job under the theatre quota. It was while distributing wedding cards for my sister’s wedding that someone suggested acting in a play because I was good looking. I would sink into the shadows if I spotted someone familiar lest they ask me about my exam results. I wondered why my father had sent me to this ‘ naraka ’. I went into a shell because of the shift from Kannada to English medium. It was a culture shock having grown up in a mutt. I did short skits in school after which there was a gap. In an interview, he gave a detailed description of his inability to cope with the change in culture and lifestyle from Karnataka to Mumbai. He was sent to Mumbai for further studies when he was in 9th standard. He studied at New English School, Honnavar till 8th standard.
He did his primary and middle schooling in a catholic school in Ajjarkad, Udupi, Ananda Ashrama in Dakshina Kannada, and Chitrapur Math in Uttara Kannada districts of the erstwhile Mysore State (now Karnataka). He spent most of his childhood in Shirali, Bhatkal taluk, Karnataka. Anant Nag was born on Saturday, 4 September 1948 ( age 73 years as of 2021).
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