1. Anant Nag has acted in over 300 films which include over 250 Kannada films and few films in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam and English languages.
16 Facts About Anant Nag
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Anant Nag has featured in theatre plays, parallel cinema and television shows.
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Anant Nag acted in Malgudi Days, a Doordarshan aired television series based on the stories of R K Narayan.
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Anant Nag is a recipient of six Filmfare Awards South and five Karnataka State Film Awards.
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Anant Nag is the elder brother of director and actor Shankar Nag.
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Anant Nag was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award, in 2025 by the Government of India.
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Anant Nag was born in a Konkani-speaking family on 4 September 1948 to Anandi and Sadanand Nagarkatte in Shirali, Bhatkal taluk, Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka, where he spent most of his childhood.
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Anant Nag has an elder sister, Shyamala and his younger brother was Shankar Nag.
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Anant Nag did his early schooling in a Catholic school in Ajjarkad, Udupi, Ananda Ashrama in Dakshina Kannada and Chitrapur Math in Uttara Kannada district of the erstwhile Mysore state.
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Anant Nag attempted to join the armed services but was rejected by the Army for being underweight and by the Air Force for poor eyesight.
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Anant Nag was drawn towards the theatre movement of Mumbai and he was selected to act in Konkani, Kannada and Marathi-language plays which he did until he turned 22.
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Anant Nag began his career with Kannada and Konkani plays in Mumbai.
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Anant Nag went on to work in plays of Satyadev Dubey, Girish Karnad and Amol Palekar.
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Anant Nag then grew to become a core part of parallel cinema, which was at its peak in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Anant Nag was pitched against then Chief Minister of Karnataka, S M Krishna from the Indian National Congress and fellow actor Mukhyamantri Chandru from Bharatiya Janata Party.
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On 22 February 2023 BJP, Karnataka state unit organised a programme in the presence of state president Nalin Kumar Kateel where Anant Nag was said to join BJP, but he didn't attend the programme and later the programme was cancelled.