Prakash Belawadi | |
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Born | 3rd March 1974 |
Alma mater | UVCE, Bangalore |
Occupation(s) | Actor, filmmaker |
Notable work | Madras Cafe Airlift The Tashkent Files The Kashmir Files |
Political party | Lok Satta Party |
Spouse | Chandrika |
Children | 2 |
Parent |
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Relatives | Sudha Belawadi (sister) Samyukta Hornad (niece) |
Prakash Belawadi is an Indian theatre artist, film director, television and media personality, who's also a teacher, activist and a journalist. He hails from Bangalore. [1] He has participated in many seminars, conferences and festivals in India and abroad. He is 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]
Belawadi was born into a family of theatre artists in Bangalore, in the erstwhile Mysore State (now Karnataka). [7] His father, Belawadi 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. 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]
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]
Year | Film | Role | Language | Notes |
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1973 | Abachurina Postofficu | Kannada | Child actor | |
1978 | Muyyi | Kannada | Child actor | |
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 | Kamal Kishore "KK" Arora | Hindi | |
2019 | The Accidental Prime Minister | M. K. Narayanan | Hindi | |
Thackeray | George Fernandes | Hindi | ||
Natasaarvabhowma | Shruthi's uncle | Kannada | ||
The Tashkent Files | GK Ananthasuresh | 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 | |
The Kashmir Files | Dr. Mahesh Kumar | Hindi | ||
India Lockdown | M. Nageshwar Rao | Hindi | ||
Hope | Vijayasimha | Kannada | ||
Head Bush | Kannada | |||
2023 | Pentagon | Kannada | Anthology film; segment Kamaturam Na Bhayam Na Lajja | |
Pathaan | Dr. Sahani | Hindi | ||
Mysore Masala: The UFO Incident | Dr. Satyaprakash | Kannada | [29] | |
2024 | O2 | Dr. Mrutyunjay | Kannada | |
The Judgement† | Kannada | [30] |
Year | Name | Role | Language | Network | Notes |
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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 |
But Belawadi believes he belongs to the stage. [33]
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. [34] 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. [35] [36]
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