Shankarnaag is genious. There is no doubt it. However our attritude is really bad. We never gave importance to them when they lived except for Rajkumar. The fact that Vishnu did not get any Padma award is purely because of us. Though he was far far better than many conteptaory indian actors, we never gave him importance. Same is the case with Shankar naag. Hopefully we have to give duely recognise Shivarajkumar, Ramesh and Ravi chandran. Shivarajkumar is nearing 100 and is a great achievement. But what pubilicity we have givem them outside of Karnataka or scope of Kannadigas. At least Ganesh, Puneeth, Darshan & Sudeep are better of than Shivaraj, Ramesh and Ravichandran.
Great achiever at so young age and visionary too. it is said a laptop was found in his car at the spot of accident. A person owning a laptop in 1990!!!
I knew Shanker Nag for Malgudi Days (though his brother Anant acted in a few Telugu movies). What a serial!! I was his instant fan. Being the same age of the character 'Swamy', I could connect to it instantly. Mr. Nag used to play short roles in that series, which only tells his unassuming nature. And when I read this article, my respect and admiration only goes up for him. And I couldn't explain how sad I was when I read about his passing away.
We miss you the genius....its been twenty years since u left us.. so many a times u come across our memory lanes... how can we ever forget you.. u were such a wonderful movie maker, great visionary and lovely human being.. who else would have had such a wonderful heart to think about people for the upliftment of underprevileged , for the betterment of the society despite basking in glory of superstar status yet so humble.. had so much visions in those days.. u were truly ahead of time... we miss u very badly sir! Had u been around, blore would not have to struggle so much, people wouldnt have to face hardship... ur dreams would ahve transformed society and people... we miss you! Had u been around kannada movies as well as Indian movies would have reached greatest heights... we would have had so many masterpiece movies and international recognition... we miss all those sir! we are so unlucky to have missed u... u left us such a long ago but ur so green in our memories, people would talk about u until eternity coz u were such a maveric and passionate movie maker, a visionary par excellence and above all a great human being... Why did we loose you, how vould god be so cruel to such a wonder person with greatest dreams... that would remain a mystery for ever... There can never come a person who could come close to you.... Shankar Nag was the one and only one.. We miss u sir so much!!
