Anant Nag
| Anant Nag | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Anant Nagarakatte 4 September 1948 Mallapur, Honnavar, Uttara Kannada Dist, Karnataka,India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Actor, politician |
| Spouse(s) | Gayathri (m. 1987) |
| Children | 1 |
| Family | Shankar Nag (brother) |
Anant Nagarkatte (born 4 September 1948), popularly known as Anant Nag, is an actor from Karnataka, India. Reputed for his natural, under-playing style of acting, Ananth has carved a niche in Kannada filmdom.Kannada cinema . In addition to Kannada movies, he has acted in Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi movies.
He has also acted in Malgudi Days, directed by his younger brother Shankar Nag based on the stories by R. K. Narayan. He is fluent in Kannada, Konkani, Marathi, Hindi.
Anant Nag was born on 4 September 1948 to Anandi and Sadanand Nagarkatte in the Chowpatty suburb of Bombay (now Mumbai), in the erstwhile Bombay Province (now a part of Maharashtra State) of the Dominion of India. Born into a Konkani-speaking family, his family settled in Shirali, a village near Bhatkal in Uttara Kannada of Karnataka State. He had an older sister, Shyamala, and a younger brother, Shankar.
Anant had his early education under the aegis of Ananda Ashrama in Dakshina Kannada district and Chitrapur Math in Uttara Kannada district of the erstwhile Mysore State (now Karnataka). After class 7, he was sent to Bombay (now Mumbai) for further education where he studied till class 11. This was when he was drawn towards the theatre movement of Bombay and he was selected to act in Konkani, Kannada and Marathi-language plays which he did until he turned 22.
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