Anant along with Sanjay Pawar received the
National Film Award (2010) for the Best
Screenplay and Dialogues for the Marathi film
Mee Sindhutai Sapkal. The film also fetched him the special jury award there. Anant 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). 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==