Arundathi Nag
Year Film Language Role
1979 22 June 1897 Marathi
1983 Nodi Swamy Navirodu Heege Kannada Jaya
1985 Parameshi Prema Prasanga Kannada Ramamani
1985 Accident Kannada Maya Rani
1993 Golibar Kannada
1996 Shiva Sainya Kannada
1997 Minsaara Kanavu Tamil Mother Superior
1998 Dil Se Hindi AIR director
2003 Ek Alag Mausam Hindi Aparna 's mother
2005 Jogi Kannada Bhagyakka
2007 Chaurahen Hindi Nandakumar Nair
2009 Paa Hindi Vidya Balan 's mother/Bum
2012 Da Thadiya Malayalam Knight Rider
2013 Andhar Bahar Kannada
2016 The Man Who Knew Infinity English Srinivasa Ramanujan 's mother
2018 Drama Malayalam Rosamma John Chacko
Filmography -- Actor
Arundhati Nag (née Rao; born 6 July 1956) is an Indian film and theatre 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 (IPTA), and did various productions in Gujarati, Marathi, and Hindi theatre, and then in Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam and English, in Bangalore. They stayed in Chintamani , Karnataka for a few years. Following her marriage to Kannada actor-director Shankar Nag (1954-1990), 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). Nag went on to realise a long-time dream of building a theatre space dedicated to quality theatre in Bangalore Ranga Shankara: . She is a recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (2008), the Padma Shri (2010) and the National Film Awards (57th) in 2010.