B. R. Nagesh
| B. R. Nagesh | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1931 Karnataka, India |
| Died |
Mumbai, India 10 March 2007 |
| Occupation | Teacher, lecturer, theatre director and writer |
| Spouse(s) | Rama Bai |
B. R. Nagesh was an English teacher and lecturer in the two coastal districts of Udupi and Dakshina Kannada of Karnataka, South India. His passion was theater; and is known best for his off beat plays that he had directed in Udupi, Mulki, Kundapur, Mangalore, Kasargodu, Chikmagaluru and other places in the area. His plays, often subtle, intense and throwing up various possibilities for interpretations, brought a new wave of freshness to the theater scene of the area that he catered to; in the 1970s and 1980s.
He has also written novels, short stories, humorous essays and critical and historical accounts in subjects pertaining to theater. He wrote under the pen name of Nachiketa.
He was born on 10 November 1931 at Mangalore and died on 10 March 2007 in his own flat at Dombivli west Thane district Mumbai, where he was residing with his wife Mrs Ramabai ,along with his younger daughter's family.
B. R. Nagesh taught in schools and colleges in the towns of Kundapur and Mulky; and he finally settled down in as an English lecturer in Poorna Prajna College in Udupi.
Although B R Nagesh created his plays in an era that can now be called as the B V Karanth era in Karnataka and although he could not but be impacted by the man, B R Nagesh tread a separate path for himself. Unlike the productions of many of his contemporaries of his era, his theatrical productions never bared the stamp of B V Karanth nor the stamp of the NSD style of production that BV Karanth brought along with him.
Based out of a small place like Udupi, B R Nagesh kept track of what was happening in the field of theater; the world over. His ideas, like that of his contemporary Udyavara Madhava Acharya, were original. But like Udyavara Madhava Acharya, B R Nagesh did not extensively use dance forms as a mode of expression in his stage narratives; although he did try his hand in directing some musical plays of K Shivarama Karanth in an early stage of his life.
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