You cannot run away now.”īack in the early 1970s, when 17-year-old Arundhati feverishly ran from one theatre practice to another and simultaneously attended BCom classes in a college in Bombay, her father nicknamed her ‘Cloud’. You have to see this through, whatever it takes. That is when she said to herself: “ Aruna, you have relinquished the right to abandon this project. She recalls clearly the day she watched the earthmover drop the first claw into the 10,000 square feet plot of land which would house what is now the haunt of ardent theatre-goers. She did not know then that it would take her another four years to raise funds to the tune of Rs 3.5 crore to complete it. Thus began Arundhati’s labour of love-building Ranga Shankara, an exclusive space for theatre in Bangalore. The CM quickly released Rs 20 lakh, another Rs 30 lakh a year later, and also requested the Jindal industrial group to provide the cement.
I’ve tried and have not been able to raise the funds.” “If you think Karnataka deserves this project, do something about it. “This proposal has been lying with your government for the past two years,” she told him. Krishna before, but she confidently placed before him the file of a project conceived by her late husband, the film actor Shankar Nag. Half-an-hour later, the office returned her call asking her to come right away.Īrundhati grabbed her files and drove to the Vidhana Soudha. She plucked the courage and called up the chief minister’s office, requesting an appointment. In the serene, early hours of the dawn of the new millennium, Arundhati Nag was silently mulling over an unfulfilled dream.Īs she sat alone in her home in a farmhouse in Bangalore, waiting for her daughter Kavya and her friends to wake up after a New-Year party the night before, she suddenly decided to set this decade-old dream in motion. Her friends handed down clothes for her to wear. She became the last parent paying her daughter’s school fees. When Shankar vanished from her life one night in 1990, debtors were lining up.
Honoured with a national award for “best supporting actress” yesterday, Arundhati’s name is synonymous with Ranga Shankara, a space devoted to theatre in Bangalore that she set up in the memory of her husband. You need something in life you have nurtured and watered with time or else old age will be a curse."Īrundhati Nag has been doing theatre for 35 years, but it took one successful Kannada film ( Jogi) and one successful Hindi film ( Paa) for Shankar Nag‘s wife to become everybody’s favourite celluloid-mom. "If you strip off all your material possessions, you are nothing but the sum total of your thoughts.
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