Prakash Belawadi
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Prakash Belawadi | |
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Born | |
Alma mater | UVCE, Bangalore |
Occupation | Actor, filmmaker |
Notable work | Stumble (2003) |
Political party | Lok Satta Party |
Spouse(s) | Chandrika |
Children | 2 |
Parent(s) |
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Relatives | Sudha Belawadi (sister) Samyukta Hornad (niece) |
Prakash Belawadi is an Indian theater, film, television and media personality, teacher, activist and journalist from Bangalore.[1] He has participated in many seminars, conferences and festivals in India and abroad. He has been a motivational speaker at events and TEDx conferences.[2][3][4][5] He is also a mentor with the founding team of BISFF (Bengaluru International Short Film Festival) since 2010.[6]
Early life[edit]
Belawadi was born into a family of theatre artistes in Bangalore, in the erstwhile Mysore State (now Karnataka).[7] His father, Belavadi Nanjundaiah Narayan (1929–2003) popularly known as Makeup Nani, was a personality in Kannada theatre, who also appeared in films, and worked as a make-up artist alongside. His mother, Bhargavi Narayan, is a renowned film and theatre artiste. His siblings Sujata, Sudha and Pradeep, and nieces and nephews are also variously connected with theatre, music, television and cinema.[8] He completed his elementary education at Mahila Seva Samaja, higher school education in National High School, following which he completed his pre-university course at National College, Bangalore.[9] He obtained a degree in mechanical engineering from University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering in 1983,.[10]
Awards[edit]
- Prakash Belawadi's debut film Stumble, which he wrote and directed, won the National Award for Best Film in the English language, 2003.[11]
- He was conferred ‘Pratibha Bhushan’ in 2003 by the Government of Karnataka for his contribution to culture.[12]
- He was recipient of Karnataka Nataka Academy Award (2011–12) for his contribution to English and Kannada language theatre,[13] and
- He was awarded the ‘Pride of Karnataka’ by Bangalore Round Table (2015),.[14]
- He was the ‘Varshada Kannadiga’ (2015) in the field of entertainment, conferred by News 18 Kannada.[15]
- He was given Helpmann Award, Australia (2019) for Best Actor, Male in the play 'Counting and Cracking', Belvoir St. Theatre, Sydney".[16][17]
International[edit]
Belawadi as mentioned earlier has participated in many seminars, conferences and festivals in India[18][19][20][21][22] and abroad, including the Beyond Bollywood conference at the Gothenburg International Film Festival, 2010 [23] the Performing Arts Market conference in Seoul, 2011 [24] the 50th Theatertreffen – annual theatre festival meet at Berlin, 2013 [25] and the seminar and exhibition, ‘Nature – A Good Idea’ at Trollhättan, Sweden in 2014.[26] He has been faculty for film courses in Sweden and Istanbul, Turkey.[27]
Partial filmography[edit]
Films[edit]
As actor[edit]
Year | Film | Role | Language | Notes |
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1976 | Bangaravayithu | Shambhu | Kannada | |
1999 | Kanooru Heggadithi | Kannada | ||
2001 | Mathadana | Kannada | ||
2013 | Madras Cafe | Bala | Hindi | |
2014 | Youngistaan | Murli Mukundan | Hindi | |
2015 | Benkipatna | Limba Rama | Kannada | |
Uttama Villain | Dr D. S. (Neurosurgeon) | Tamil | Cameo appearance | |
Aatagara | Dr. Chetan Bhagawat | Kannada | ||
Fading Red | ACP Ravikumar | Kannada | Short film | |
Kendasampige | DCP Suryakanth | Kannada | ||
Talvar | Ramshankar Pillai | Hindi | ||
2016 | Wazir | DCP | Hindi | |
Last Bus | Sandy | Kannada | ||
Airlift | George Kutty | Hindi | ||
Kiragoorina Gayyaligalu | A Government Officer | Kannada | ||
Ishtakamya | Vikranth | Kannada | ||
Te3n | Kumar | Hindi | ||
2017 | Take Off | Rajan Menon | Malayalam | |
Aake | PK | Kannada | ||
Meri Pyaari Bindu | Bindu's father | Hindi | ||
Solo | Vishnu | Malayalam | Bilingual film | |
Tamil | ||||
Dayavittu Gamanisi | Kannada | |||
Aval | Joshua | Tamil[28] | Bilingual film | |
The House Next Door | Hindi | |||
Mufti | Social worker | Kannada | ||
2018 | Sanju | ANews Editor | Hindi | |
2019 | The Accidental Prime Minister | M. K. Narayanan | Hindi | |
Thackeray | George Fernandes | Hindi | ||
Natasaarvabhowma | Shruthi's uncle | Kannada | ||
The Tashkent Files | GK Anantha Suresh | Hindi | ||
Saaho | Shinde | Telugu | Trilingual film | |
Tamil | ||||
Hindi | ||||
Made in China | Hindi | |||
Katha Sangama | Sathya Murthy | Kannada | ||
2020 | Shakuntala Devi | Bishaw Mitra Mani | Hindi | |
Soorarai Pottru | Prakash Babu | Tamil | ||
Yuvarathnaa | Shatrughan Salimath | Kannada | ||
2021 | 100 | Sadanand | Kannada | |
2022 | The Kashmir Files | Hindi | ||
TBA | Mysore Masala: The UFO Incident | Dr. Satyaprakash | Kannada | [29] |
Web series[edit]
Period | Name | Role | Genre | Channel | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2018 | Smoke | Bhau | Web series | Eros Now | Hindi Language |
2020 | High | Dr. Shridhar Roy | Web series | MX Player | Hindi Language |
2021 | Mumbai Diaries 26/11 | Dr. Mani Subramaniam | Web series | Amazon Prime Video | Hindi Language |
2022 | Humble Politician Nograj | Krishna Gundu Bala (KGB) | Web series | Voot Select | Kannada Language |
As director[edit]
- His debut film feature has now been included in the national telecaster Doordarshan's Best of Indian Cinema series.[30]
- The serial ‘Garva’, which he wrote and directed in 2001 is still considered a classic among Kannada serials.[31]
But Belawadi believes he belongs to the stage.[32]
Activism[edit]
Belawadi is one of the founding members of Citizens for Bengaluru, an active platform for people to engage with the city government to make it accountable to citizens.[33] Belawadi curates ‘Rotary Avani’, an annual ecology festival in Bengaluru between 22 April, International Mother Earth Day and 5 June, World Environment Day, to create awareness about the environment, in The Five Elements – Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Sky, so that people, together with government, industry, business and citizens can participate in initiatives to improve urban ecological health.[34][35]
References[edit]
- ↑ Patel, Aakar (31 August 2013). "A restless Renaissance Man".
- ↑ "TEDx talks by Prakash Belwadi". Simply Life India Speakers Bureau.
- ↑ "Interactive Movies, Prakash Belawadi, TEDxSIBMBengaluru". YouTube.
- ↑ "When Tomorrow Comes, Prakash Belawadi, TEDxBITBangalore". YouTube.
- ↑ "Identities," Are you really what you are ? ", Prakash Belawadi, TEDxNMIMSBangalore". YouTube.
- ↑ "Prakash Belawadi, A mentor at BISFF'19". Bengaluru International Short Film Festival.
- ↑ "BEST OF BANGALORE - Innovation Edition". Retrieved 21 July 2014.
- ↑ "Family time in Kannada films". Deccan Herald. 8 November 2019.
- ↑ "Prakash Belawadi - Ward No 142 - Loksatta Party (LSP) Candidate - BBMP Elections". My Bengaluru. 26 March 2010.
- ↑ "Alumni of UVCE".
- ↑ "The 50th National Film Awards". outlookindia.com.
- ↑ "Pratibha Bhushan title is conferred on Nikhil Joshi and Prakash Belawadi (culture)". timesofindia.com. Retrieved 19 August 2003.
- ↑ "Venkatswamy, Belawadi get Nataka Academy Awards". newindianexpress.com. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
- ↑ "Pride of Karnataka Awards 2015". Round Table India blogs.
- ↑ "Kannadiga of the year 2018". Kannadiga of the year 2018.
- ↑ "Best Male Actor in a Play, Helpmann Awards 2019".
- ↑ "Helpmann awards 2019: Belvoir sweeps stage industry accolades over two nights". TheGuardian.com. 15 July 2019.
- ↑ "Archives for Prakash Belawadi". Bangalore Literature Festival.
- ↑ Duttagupta, Ishani. "Sweden-India Nobel Memorial Week: Does Rabindranath Tagore still matter". The Economic Times. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
- ↑ "A Lecture Series on the Practitioner's Approach Lecture 7, Production of Knowledge in the Arts, FIXING CLIVE in HISTORY". The Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute of Science.
- ↑ "Prakash Belwadi at the Mangaluru Literary Festival 2018". The Hindu. 31 October 2018. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
- ↑ "Prakash Belwadi at the Mangaluru Literary Festival 2019". The Deccan Herald. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
- ↑ "Beyond Bollywood". GU Journal no 5-2010. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
- ↑ "Venue in Need for More In-depth Interactive Discussions" (PDF).
- ↑ HORWITZ, ANDY (23 August 2013). "Notes From Berlin". culturebot.org. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
- ↑ "NATURE: A GOOD IDEA".
- ↑ "Film Lab - to Explore the Image of The Other (FBF630)". akademinvaland.gu.se.
- ↑ "Mani Ratnam isn't a fan of horror films: Milind Rau".
- ↑ "A multi-starrer sci-fi adventure drama in the works in Kannada - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
- ↑ "THE BEST of INDIAN CINEMA on DD NATIONAL 'Stumble'". facebook.com.
- ↑ "16 Old Kannada TV Serials Which Have Made Our Childhood Awesome and Fun-filled". metrosaga.com. 23 September 2018. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
- ↑ ""I Can Quit Acting, Not Theatre" Says Actor-Director Prakash Belawadi". starofmysore.com. 2 August 2017.
- ↑ "How Bengaluru got its pride back: The steel flyover protests gave it a robust citizen's movement". scroll.in. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
- ↑ "Celebrating Environment by Rotary Avani".
- ↑ I'm involved in issues that hurt us the most: Prakash Belawadi-Yourstory
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