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Prakash Belawadi is an Indian theatre, 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]

Prakash Belawadi
Belawadi during the making of theatrical play of Parva, in 2020-21
Born	Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Alma mater	UVCE, Bangalore
Occupation	Actor, filmmaker
Notable work	The Kashmir Files, Stumble (2003)
Political party	Lok Satta Party
Spouse	Chandrika
Children	2
Parent	Bhargavi Narayan (mother)
Relatives	Sudha Belawadi (sister) Samyukta Hornad (niece)

Early life

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, was 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

• 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

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

Films

As actor

Year	Film	Role	Language	Notes
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
	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	Bilingual film
			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	One Cut Two Cut	Pruthiraj	Kannada
2022	The Kashmir Files	Dr. Mahesh Kumar	Hindi
TBA	Mysore Masala: The UFO Incident	Dr. Satyaprakash	Kannada	[29]

Web series

Year	Name	Role	Language	Network	Notes
2018	Smoke	Bhau	Hindi	Eros Now
2020	High	Dr. Shridhar Roy	Hindi	MX Player
2021	Mumbai Diaries 26/11	Dr. Mani Subramaniam	Hindi	Amazon Prime Video	recurring role
2022	Humble Politician Nograj	Krishna Gundu Bala (KGB)	Kannada	Voot Select	Main cast

As director

• 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

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

External links

• Prakash Belawadi at IMDb

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