Prakash Belawadi is an Indian actor and theater artist. He is also a widely acclaimed media figure. Prakash Belawadi is a well-known Indian activist and teacher. He has been working as a mentor at BISFF (Bangalore International Short Film Festival) since 2010. In 2022, he acted in the film Kashmir Files, which was based on the 1990 Pandit escape and genocide in Kashmir.
Wiki/Biography
Prakash Belawadi was born in 1970 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India (52 years old; as of 2022). He completed his primary education at Mahila Seva Samaja and his higher education at National High School. He then completed his pre-university course at the National College, Bangalore. He then went to Visvesvaraya University College of Engineering in 1983 to pursue a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
appearance
Height (approximately): 6′
Hair color: gray
Eye color: black
Young Prakash Belavadi
family
Parents and siblings
His father’s name is Belavadi Nanjundaiah Narayan and mother’s name is Bhargavi Narayan. They are both theater artists and Kannada film actors.
Prakash Belavadi’s parents
He has two sisters named Sudha Belawadi and Sujata Belawadi. Sudha is a theater artist and Sujata is a teacher and yoga advocate.
Sudha Belawadi, one of Prakash Belawadi’s sisters
He has a brother named Pradeep Belawadi who is a theater artist and engineer.
Pradeep Belavadi
His niece Samyukta Hornad is a theater artist who has acted in Kannada, Tamil and Telugu films.
Prakash Belawadi’s niece Samyukta Hornad
wife and children
He is married to Chandrika Belavadi.
Prakash Belavadi with wife and daughter
The couple has two daughters named Meghana Belawadi and Teju Belawadi. They are all actresses.
Prakash Belavadi and his two daughters
Profession
Movie
Prakash Belawadi started working in films in 1976 and his first project was a Kannada film titled “Bangaravayatu” in which he played the role of Shambhu.
Movie “Bangaravayatu” poster
He later appeared in a number of Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil films, including Bala in Madras Cafe (Hindi) in 2013, and Bala in Madras Cafe (Hindi) in 2016. Airlift” (Hindi) as George Kutty, “Aatagara” (Tamil) as Dr. Chetan Bhakawat in 2015, “Solo” (Malayalam) as Dr. Chetan Bhakawat in 2015) in 2017 as Vishnu, Katha Sangama (Kannada) as Sathya Murthy in 2019, The Tashkent Files (Hindi) as GK Anantha Suresh in 2019, 100 (Kannada) as Sadanand in 2021. In 2022, Prakash Belawadi starred in the film He played the role of Dr. Mahesh Kumar in Kashmir Files.
teacher
Prakash Belawadi is a faculty member in film courses at universities in Sweden, Istanbul and Turkey.
television
The TV series Garva was written and directed by Prakash Belawadi in 2001. The series ranked first among Kannada serials.
Citizen Bangalore
Prakash Belawadi co-founded an active citizenship platform called Bengaluru Citizen in 2017. The organization advocates for the welfare of citizens by challenging government policies. Prakash Belawadi organizes an eco-festival called ‘Rotary Avani’ from April 22 to June 5 every year to create environmental awareness among the citizens of the state. Its main areas of work focus on saving the five elements of earth, water, fire, air and sky, and saving ecosystems in urban areas with the support of governments, industry, businesses and citizens.
politics
Prakash Belawadi contested the 2010 Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) elections as the Loksatta Party (LSP) candidate from Sunkenahalli constituency.
web series
Prakash Belawadi started appearing as an actor in 2018 on various OTT platforms. His first web series was Smoke in which he played the role of Bhau.
Poster of web drama “Smoke”
Later, Prakash Belawadi appeared in the web series High, which was streamed on MX Player. In the series, he played the role of Dr. Shridhar Roy in 2020. In 2021, he played the role of Dr. Mani Subramaniam in the web series Mumbai on Amazon Prime Video. Diary 26/11. Prakash Belawadi plays Krishna Gundu Bala (KGB) in the 2022 Kannada web series Politician Nograj. The web series airs on Voot Select.
Awards
- In 2003, the film Trip, written and directed by Prakash, won the National Award for Best English Film. In the same year, Prakash Belavadi was awarded the title of ‘Pratibha Bhushan’ by the Government of Karnataka for his contribution to culture.
- In 2011-12, Prakash Belawadi was awarded the Karnataka Nataka Academy Award for his contribution to English and Kannada theatre.
- In 2015, Prakash Belawadi was awarded the Pride of Karnataka award by the Bangalore Roundtable. In the same year, he was awarded the “Varshada Kannadiga” award in the field of entertainment, which was awarded to Prakash Belawadi by News 18 Kannada.
- In 2019, Prakash Belawadi won the Australian Helpmann Award for his work in the play Counting and Cracking at Sydney’s Belvoir St. Theatre. Best Actor Award.
dispute
In May 2021, Prakash Belawadi shared an incendiary theory on his Facebook page. In his post, he said Muslims in West Bengal were responsible for the post-poll violence. He also refers to Muslims as “others.” Prakash Belawadi also mentioned the 2002 Gujarat massacre in the same article. His position indirectly supported the Sangh Parivar in its struggle against minorities. His views are widely shared by right-wingers and BJP supporters in Karnataka and across India. In the same year, Prakash Belavadi reportedly organized a theatrical performance called Parva, based on Belappa’s novel, which involved a sum of Rs. 1 Crore, which was given to him by the government.
Facts/Trivia
- Prakash Belawadi was born and raised in a family of theater artists. His parents are renowned Kannada theater artists who have also appeared in several Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam films. His father, Belavadi Nanjundaiah Narayan, was active in the South Indian entertainment industry from 1929 to 2003. Apart from being a theater artist, Belavdi Nanjundaiah Narayan is also a trained makeup artist, famously known by the name Makeup Nani.
- Various renowned online events and conferences such as TEDx often invite Prakash Belawadi to deliver motivational speeches to the audience.
Prakash Belawadi speaks at TEDx
- Some reputed institutions in India and many other countries around the world regularly invite Prakash Belawadi as a speaker at their seminars, conferences and festivals. Prakash Belawadi attended the Beyond Bollywood session at the 2010 Gothenburg International Film Festival. He was a guest speaker at the 2011 Seoul Performing Arts Market Conference. Prakash Belawadi attended the 50th Theatertreffen conference in Berlin as a guest speaker. Prakash Belawadi attended the 2014 symposium and exhibition “Nature – a good idea” in Trollhättan, Sweden.
Prakash Belavadi speaks at an event in Bengaluru
- In March 2022, soon after the release of the film Kashmir Files, Prakash Belavadi said in an interview with a media outlet that he had no idea what Kashmiri Pandits felt when they were forced to leave Kashmir in 1990 pain of. He further added that he came to know about the horrors of escape after reading the script of the film written by Vivek Agnihotri. He said,
I am honored to be a part of ‘Kashmir Files’. When Vivek Agnihotri sent me the script to read, I was shocked because before that I had no idea about the Kashmiri Pandits from Jammu and Kashmir in the 1990s Details of the horrific events on the run. “
According to Prakash Belawadi, who was a journalist in 1990 when Kashmiri Pandits faced brutal genocide, he said he felt guilty for not raising the issue as a journalist at the time. Prakash Belavadi said,
I felt ashamed and guilty because I was a journalist at the time and prided myself on being someone who understood contemporary events, but I discovered that was not the case. I felt it was only right that I apologize to the community for having been in this state of indifference for so long. “
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