Career
She has been involved with multilingual Theatre in India, for over 25 years, first in Mumbai where she got involved with Indian People"s Theatre Association (IPTA), and did various productions in Gujarati, Marathi, and Hindi theatre, besides getting involved in television, director Jyoti Vyas"s Gujarati television series, Haji Aavti Kaal Che. She was awarded the 2008 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Theatre Acting by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India"s National Academy of Music, Dance and Theatre. She was also awarded the 57th National Film as Best Supporting Actress for her role in Paa.
Now the annual Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival has become a regular feature on Bangalore"s cultural calendar.
Her most recent production has been Girish Karnad"s Bikhre Bimb. Arundhati has also acted in other language films such as Minsara Kanavu (1997), dubbed into Hindi as Sapnay (1997), Dil Se.
(1998).
She has acted in the Indian National Award winning Marathi film 22 June 1897. In 2009, she acted in the film Paa.