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{{short description|Indian actress, theatre personality}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Arundhati Nag
| image = Arundhati Nag.jpg
| caption = Arundhati in 2010
| birth_name = Arundhati Rao
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1956|7|6|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Delhi]], [[India]]
| nationality =
| occupation = Actress
| years active = 1973–present
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Shankar Nag]]|1980|1990|end=d}}
| relatives = [[Padmavati Rao]] (sister)<ref>{{cite news|last1=Iyengar|first1=Vidya|title='I lead my life in disbelief'|url=http://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/opinion/sunday-read/opinion/sunday-read/i-lead-my-life-in-disbelief/articleshow/52811938.cms|access-date=23 March 2018|work=Bangalore Mirror|date=19 June 2016|archive-date=23 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323160509/http://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/opinion/sunday-read/opinion/sunday-read/i-lead-my-life-in-disbelief/articleshow/52811938.cms|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| children = 1
}}

'''Arundhati Nag''' (née '''Rao'''; born 6 July 1956)<ref name="hi">{{cite web |title= Curtain call |url= http://www.harmonyindia.org/hportal/VirtualPageView.jsp?page_id=13483&index1=1 |website= harmonyindia.org |access-date= 10 November 2014 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141110074143/http://www.harmonyindia.org/hportal/VirtualPageView.jsp?page_id=13483&index1=1 |archive-date= 10 November 2014 |df= dmy-all }}</ref> is an Indian actress. She has been involved with multilingual [[Theatre in India]], for over 25 years, first in [[Mumbai]] where she got involved with [[Indian People's Theatre Association]] ([[Indian People's Theatre Association|IPTA]]), and did various productions in [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]], [[Marathi language|Marathi]], and [[Hindi theatre]], and then in [[Kannada]], [[Tamil language|Tamil]], [[Malayalam]] and English, in [[Bangalore]].

They stayed in [[Chintamani, Karnataka]] for a few years.

Following her marriage to Kannada actor-director [[Shankar Nag]] (1980–1990), her association with theatre continued in Bangalore, where she performed several plays in Kannada: Girish Karnad's ''Anju Mallige'', ''27 Mavalli Circle'' based on the famous play ''Wait Until Dark'', ''Sandhya Chayya'' (Jayant Dalvi), Girish Karnad's ''Nagamandala'', and Bertolt Brecht's ''Mother Courage'' as ''Hulaguru Huliyavva''. She also worked in several Kannada movies: ''Accident'' (1984), ''Parameshi Prema Prasanga'' (1984) and ''Nodiswamy, Navirodu Heege'' (1987).<ref>[http://www.mumbaitheatreguide.com/dramas/interviews/arundhati_nag.asp Arundhati Nag Profile and Interview] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070207064453/http://www.mumbaitheatreguide.com/dramas/interviews/arundhati_nag.asp |date=7 February 2007 }} ''mumbaitheatreguide.com.</ref>

Nag built a theatre space dedicated to quality theatre in Bangalore [[Ranga Shankara]]: .<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rangashankara.org/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=22 October 2008 |archive-date=30 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630144219/http://rangashankara.org/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20100501143112/http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2124/stories/20041203001008400.htm A theatre of one's own]}} ''[[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]]'', Volume 21 – Issue 24, 20 November – 3 December 2004.</ref><ref name=hin>[http://www.hindu.com/mag/2004/11/21/stories/2004112100670200.htm Dream of a theatre] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050822211847/http://www.hindu.com/mag/2004/11/21/stories/2004112100670200.htm |date=22 August 2005 }} ''[[The Hindu]]'', 21 November 2004.</ref><ref name="toi">{{cite news |title= Ready for an encore |url= http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/stoi/Ready-for-an-encore/articleshow/205174.cms |newspaper= The Times of India |date= 28 September 2003 |access-date= 10 November 2014 |archive-date= 24 October 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121024235558/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/stoi/Ready-for-an-encore/articleshow/205174.cms |url-status= live }}</ref> She is a recipient of the [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]] (2008), the Padma Shri (2010) and the National Film Awards (57th) in 2010.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20180620101908/http://www.sangeetnatak.com/sna/awardeeslist-theatre.htm Sangeet Natak Akademi Award ] [[Sangeet Natak Akademi]].</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.padmaawards.gov.in:8888/?Year=2010-2010&Award=Padma%20Shri |title=Padmashree |access-date=29 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161001193806/http://www.padmaawards.gov.in:8888/?Year=2010-2010&Award=Padma%20Shri |archive-date=1 October 2016 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

==Career==
Nag's career spans over 40 years of theatre, film and television. She is the founder and the Managing Trustee of the [[Sanket Trust]], established in 1992, which runs Ranga Shankara, a theatre space in Bangalore.,.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rangashankara.org/home/rangatest/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&favm=2 |title=Sanket Trust |access-date=22 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080914195329/http://www.rangashankara.org/home/rangatest/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&favm=2 |archive-date=14 September 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>''[[Ranga Shankara]]''</ref>
Ranga Shankara offers a quality theatre experience for theatre lovers in city.<ref>''[[The Hindu]]''[http://www.hindu.com/mp/2006/12/09/stories/2006120900680200.htm Managing Trustee] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103211725/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2006/12/09/stories/2006120900680200.htm |date=3 November 2012 }}, 9 December 2006.</ref><ref>[http://www.sawf.org/newedit/edit03072005/windowtokarnataka.asp Arundhati Nag – Making The World See Her Dreams!] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071125064144/http://www.sawf.org/newedit/edit03072005/windowtokarnataka.asp |date=25 November 2007 }} ''South Asian Women's Forum'', 7 March 2005.</ref>
The annual [[Ranga Shankara]] Theatre Festival, now in its twelfth year, has become a regular feature on Bangalore's cultural calendar.<ref>{{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20050508015759/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2004/11/16/stories/2004111600950100.htm Ranga Shankara theatre festival rolls on]}} ''[[The Hindu]]'', 16 November 2004.</ref>

Nag continues to be actively involved in theatre: her most recent works include Girish Karnad's "Bikhre Bimb" (Hindi) and "Odakalu Bimba" (Kannada).

Her last major movie was ''[[The Man Who Knew Infinity]]'' (2016), in which she played the mother of the mathematical wizard Ramanujan. She has also appeared in Hindi movies including ''Paa'' (2009), "Sapnay" (1997) and "Dil Se" (1998), Kannada movies including ''Golibar'' (1991), ''[[Jogi (film)|Jogi]]'' (2005) and "Andar Bahar", and Malayalam ''[[Da Thadiya]]'' (2012) and [[Drama (2018 film)]]

==Personal life==
Nag was born in 1956 in [[Delhi]], stayed in Netaji Nagar. Her family moved to [[Mumbai]] when she was 10. At 17, she met [[Shankar Nag]], also a theatre artist.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Jayaraman|first1=Pavitra|title=Freedom to express: Arundhati Nag|url=http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/GE2AIdErgbzFa985Mj4yeK/Freedom-to-express--Arundhati-Nag.html|work=Livemint|access-date=6 March 2017|date=15 August 2009|archive-date=7 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170307123610/http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/GE2AIdErgbzFa985Mj4yeK/Freedom-to-express--Arundhati-Nag.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Six years later, the two got married and moved to [[Bangalore]]. Shankar became a well-known film actor, and later a director, most remembered for his TV adaptation of [[R. K. Narayan]]'s ''[[Malgudi Days (TV series)|Malgudi Days]]'' (1987).<ref name="toi"/> They had a daughter together, Kaavya.

In 1990, Shankar died in a car accident. Arundhati continued to act in theatre, and began to work towards realising her dream of a theatre space, which in 2004, finally materialised into [[Ranga Shankara]], which is today one of India's premier venues for theatre.

==Filmography==

===Actor===
{| class="wikitable"
! Year!! Film !! Language || Role ||Notes
|-
| 1979 || ''[[22 June 1897]]'' || [[Marathi language|Marathi]] || ||
|-
| 1983 || ''[[Nodi Swamy Navirodu Heege]]'' || [[Kannada]] || Jaya ||
|-
| 1984 || ''[[Accident (1985 film)|Accident]]'' || Kannada || Maya Rani || [[Karnataka State Film Award for Best Supporting Actress]]
|-
| rowspan="2"|1985 || ''[[Parameshi Prema Prasanga]]'' || Kannada ||Ramamani ||
|-
| ''[[Poi Mugangal]]'' || [[Tamil language|Tamil]] || ||
|-
| 1993 || ''Golibar'' || Kannada || Bharathi Devi ||
|-
| 1996 || ''[[Shiva Sainya]]'' || Kannada || ||
|-
| 1997 || ''[[Minsaara Kanavu]]'' || Tamil || Mother Superior ||
|-
| 1998 || ''[[Dil Se..]]'' || [[Hindi language|Hindi]] || [[All India Radio|AIR]] director||
|-
| 2003 || ''[[Ek Alag Mausam]]'' || Hindi || Aparna's mother ||
|-
| 2005 || ''[[Jogi (film)|Jogi]]'' || Kannada || Bhagyakka || Karnataka State Film Award for Best Supporting Actress
|-
| 2007 || ''[[Chaurahen]]'' || Hindi || Nandakumar Nair ||
|-
| 2009 || ''[[Paa (film)|Paa]]'' || Hindi || [[Vidya Balan]]'s mother/Bum || [[National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress]]
|-
| 2012 || ''[[Da Thadiya]]'' || [[Malayalam]] || "Knight Rider" ||
|-
| 2013 || ''[[Andhar Bahar]]'' || Kannada || ||
|-
| 2016 || ''[[The Man Who Knew Infinity (film)|The Man Who Knew Infinity]]'' || English || [[Srinivasa Ramanujan]]'s mother ||
|-
| 2018 || ''[[Drama (2018 film)|Drama]]'' || Malayalam || Rosamma John Chacko
||
|-
|2022 ||''[[Escaype Live]]'' ||Hindi || Lakshmi Amma ||Webseries
|}

===Assistant director===
* ''[[A Passage to India (film)|A Passage to India]]'' (1984)
* ''[[Indian Summer (1987 film)|Indian Summer]]'' (1987)

==Awards==
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* 1985: '''Won''': [[Karnataka State Film Award for Best Supporting Actress]] – ''[[Accident (1985 film)|Accident]]''
* 2005: '''Won''': [[Karnataka State Film Award for Best Supporting Actress]] – ''[[Jogi (film)|Jogi]]''
* 2006: '''Awarded''': [[Rajyotsava Prashasti|Karnataka Rajyotsava Award]]
* 2006: '''Won''': Citizen Extraordinaire' from the Rotary Club Bangalore
* 2008: '''Won''': [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]] – Theatre, Acting <ref>{{cite web|url=http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/awardeeslist.htm|title=SNA: List of Akademi Awardees|publisher=[[Sangeet Natak Akademi]] Official website|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331060603/http://www.sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/awardeeslist.htm|archive-date=31 March 2016}}</ref>
* 2009: '''Won''': [[57th National Film Awards|57th]] [[National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress]] – ''[[Paa (film)|Paa]]'' <ref>{{cite web|title=57th National Film Awards – 2009|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/57thNFA.pdf|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|page=[http://dff.nic.in/2011/57thNFA.pdf#page=72 71]|date=2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303235404/http://dff.nic.in/2011/57thNFA.pdf|archive-date=3 March 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
* 2010: '''Awarded''': [[Padma Shri Award]]<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 |df=dmy }}</ref>
* 2010: '''Nominated''': [[Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress]] – ''[[Paa (film)|Paa]]''
* 2010: '''Won''': Star Cine Award for Best Supporting Actress – ''[[Paa (film)|Paa]]''
* 2010: '''Conferred A Doctorate''': for services rendered to the world of theatre, by Bijapur Women's University, Bijapur

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{IMDb name|1617865}}
* [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/38046162.cms Arundhati Nag: Life is beautiful – Interview] ''[[Times of India]]''
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fWcSXLuMn0]
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