Anant Nag

Anant Nagarkatte , popularly known as Anant Nag, is an actor from Karnataka, India. He is considered one of Kannada cinemas finest actors. As a result, he is popularly known as an actor with nofailures, by critics. 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. His work was much appreciated by critics at that time. He is fluent in Kannada, Konkani, Marathi, Hindi. The versatile natural acting coupled with the style of speaking made him one of the most successful actors in Kannada cinema.

Anant Nag was born onSeptember 1948 to Anandi and Sadanand Nagarkatte in the Chowpatty suburb of Bombay , in the erstwhile Bombay Province of the Dominion of India. Born into a Konkanispeaking 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.

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