Ananth Narayan Mahadevan (born 28 August 1950) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and an actor.
Career
Anant along with Sanjay Pawar received the
National Award (2010) for the Best
Screenplay
A screenplay, or script, is a written work produced for a film, television show (also known as a '' teleplay''), or video game by screenwriters (cf. ''stage play''). Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of w ...
and Dialogues for the successful Marathi movie ''
Mee Sindhutai Sapkal''. The film also fetched him the special jury award at the
National Film awards
The National Film Awards are awards for artistic and technical merit given for "Excellence within the Cinema of India, Indian film industry". Established in 1954, it has been administered, along with the International Film Festival of India ...
2010.
Anant Mahadevan's film ''
Gour Hari Dastaan'' was part of the Indian Panorama at the International Film Festival of India (2014) Goa, at the International Film Festival of Kerala IFFK (2014), the International Film Festival of Bangalore, and at the International Film Festival of Chennai (2014).
He plays the role of a strict patriarch who has his set opinions and wants other members in his family - his wife Vasudha (
Mona Ambegaonkar
Mona Ambegaonkar (born 5 March 1970) is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films and television. She has featured in over 15 plays, 18 feature films, 38 TV projects, 37 advertising campaigns. She had a minor role in film '' Hazaar Chaurasi Ki ...
), sister Sarita (
Yamini Singh) and son Kartik (Devansh Doshi) - to obey his commands. His next film is
Mission Raniganj
Filmography
Films
Acting credits
Television
References
External links
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Male actors from Thrissur
Indian male film actors
Hindi-language film directors
Living people
Malayali people
Indian male screenwriters
Malayalam film directors
Film directors from Thrissur
21st-century Indian people
20th-century Indian male actors
21st-century Indian male actors
Male actors in Tamil cinema
Male actors in Hindi cinema
Marathi film directors
Screenwriters from Kerala
Best Adapted Screenplay National Film Award winners
1950 births