Anant Mahadevan
Ananth Narayan Mahadevan (born 28 August 1956), also credited as Anant Mahadevan, is an Indian screenwriter, actor, and film director of Hindi and Marathi as well as Tamil Films and television shows. Having been an integral part of the Indian  television serials and Hindi films since the 1980s, he is also involved in the professional English and Hindi theatre. Career
Ananth along with Sanjay Pawar received the National Award (2010) for the Best Screenplay and Dialogues for the successful Marathi movie Mee Sindhutai Sapkal. The film also fetched him the special jury award at the National Film awards 2010. 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). Ananth plays the role of Damodar in the 2018 Hindi feature film Evening Shadows, directed by Sridhar Rangayan and produced by Solaris Pictures. 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), sister Sarita (Yamini Singh) and son Kartik (Devansh Doshi) - to obey his commands. His next film is Mission Raniganj

Filmography

Director

Television

Writer

Actor

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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 film directors
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