B. R. Nagesh [SEP] place of birth
B. R. Nagesh
B. R. Nagesh was an English teacher and lecturer in the two coastal districts of Udupi and Dakshina Kannada of Karnataka, South India. His passion was theater; and is known best for his off beat plays that he had directed in Udupi, Mulki, Kundapur, Mangalore, Kasargodu, Chikmagaluru and other places in the area. His plays, often subtle, intense and throwing up various possibilities for interpretations, brought a new wave of freshness to the theater scene of the area that he catered to; in
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Based out of a small place like Udupi, B R Nagesh kept track of what was happening in the field of theater; the world over. His ideas, like that of his contemporary Udyavara Madhava Acharya, were original. But like Udyavara Madhava Acharya, B R Nagesh did not extensively use dance forms as a mode of expression in his stage narratives; although he did try his hand in directing some musical plays of