Anant Nag: The art of making acting invisible

BD Narayankar Bengaluru, Sept 16 (UNI) Anant Nag has spent more than five decades doing something that sounds deceptively easy: behaving in front of a camera. That, as the veteran actor's career makes clear, is anything but easy. At a time when Indian cinema often mistook volume for emotion, Anant Nag arrived with a rather unfashionable idea - an actor need not "act" all the time. He could simply behave like an ordinary human being. The challenge was to make that behaviour compelling enough for an audience to watch. That became the foundation of one of Kannada cinema's most distinctive…