Arundhati Nag Biography

Fast Facts

• Her family moved from Delhi to Mumbai when she was 10 years old
• Discovered her love for theatre acting while in school; joined Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA) at the age of 16
• Has been a part various productions in Gujarati, Marathi and Hindi theatre
• Shifted to Bengaluru (then known as Bangalore) in 1979
• Worked as assistant director on two celebrated English films, David Lean's A Passage to India (1984) and Timothy Forder's Indian Summer (1987)
• Set up the Sanket Trust along with Girish Karnad and M
• S
• Sathyu in 1992
• In 2004, co-founded the Ranga Shankara theatre in memory of her late husband
• Won the Karnataka State Best Supporting Actress Award for the film Jogi (2005)
• Bagged the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2008
• Received a Star Screen Best Supporting Actress Award for her role in the movie Paa (2009)
• The Government of India conferred upon her the Padmashree, the fourth highest civilian award in the country, in 2010
• Resigned from her post as a member of the Censor Board of Film Certification in 2015